A Java Programming Question

(The Person, Student, Employee, Faculty, and Staff classes):

Design/ Implement a class named Person and its two subclasses named Student and

Employee. Make Faculty and Staff subclasses of Employee.

A person has a name, address, phone number, and email address.

A student has a class status (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior). Define the status as a constant.

An employee has an office, salary, and date hired.

A faculty member has office hours and a rank.

A staff member has a title.

a) Override the toString method in each class to display its data members.

b) Override the equals method in each class to check if two objects are equal.

c) Write a test program with the following requirements:

a. Define an isEquals method with the following signature that checks if the objects passed as parameters are equal.

public boolean isEquals(Object o1, Object o2)

b. Main method that:

i. Creates instances of Person, Student, Employee, Faculty, and Staff, and invokes their toString() methods to display their data fields.

ii. Compare the instance of Student object with that of the Faculty object using

isEquals method and display whether both the instances are equal or not.