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Polymorphism

• showMessageDialog doesn't know which icon is passed
  
  • ImageIcon?
  • MarsIcon?
  • . . .?
    
• The actual type of anIcon is not Icon
• There are no objects of type Icon
• anIcon belongs to a class that implements Icon
• That class defines a getIconWidth method

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