CareerCup

it looks like we need to use inheritance to acheive this, where in you have a superclass with generic functionality and a long list of subclassess overriding the generic methods of super class to provide specific behaviour.

We can have a an interface called ICard

public interface ICard extends Comparable
{

public static final int SPADES = 0;
public static final int HEARTS = 1;
public static final int DIAMONDS = 2;
public static final int CLUBS = 3;

public int getSuit();
public int getRank();

}

also we can have a deck class

public class Deck implements Iterator
{

	private ArrayList myCardList;
	private int myIndex;


	public Deck()
	{
		myCardList = new ArrayList();
		for(int suit = ICard.SPADES; suit <= ICard.CLUBS; suit++)
		{
			for (int rank = 1; rank <= 13; rank++)
			{
			myCardList.add(new Card(suit,rank));
			}
		}

		shuffle();
	}

	private void shuffle()
	{
		Collections.shuffle(myCardList);
		myIndex = 0;
	}

	public boolean hasNext()
	{
		return myIndex < myCardList.size();
	}
	
	public Object next() 
	{
		ICard card = (ICard) myCardList.get(myIndex);
		myIndex++;
		return card;
	}
	
	public void remove() 
	{
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
	}
}