extending the Socket class

[netooi25]

Hi, I got the idea I would extend the Socket class
and provide a few more useful methods to it for my
program...

I am having a problem though.

When I call the accept method of the ServerSocket class,
It returns a Socket object instead of the subclass object.

It compiles but this is causing a classcastexception when I try to run it in a test program. Can anyone tell me how I can assign the return value of the ServerSocket's accept method to my subclass of the Socket class? Is this possible.

Thanks

 

[timw]

You've posted this here and the Java forum. Please don't cross-post.