A queation about templates

[FrozenKnight]

I was just wondering, as most of you know i have little to no experience with templates.
Anyway, I just recently took a course on java and I was wondering what the differences between java's abstract classes and C++ templates are?

[C-Man]

I have little to no knowlage of jave 

[kccc]

No. Abstract methods of abstract classes in Java are simply declarations and still have to have precise signatures (abstract int hit(); there's no way of having one return anything else than int if you specify int), but will not be defined in the super class. You must subclass them. Almost exactly like abstract classes in C++ methinks.

[mleveill]

i think you should be comparing java's generics and c++'s templates
i don't think either of them are implemented all that well

[myork]

C++ has abstract classes.

Just create a class with pure virtual function.

Templates are a very advanced form of Java Generics.
Generics basically covers what templates was originally conceived to-do before everybody realized that templates was really a Turing complete mete-language and much more powerful than originally expected.

[shash4evr]

 there is no relation between java abstract classes and the c++ templates. Abstraction is a concept in OOP and c++ templates are basically similar to functionality of the java collection classes.