Understanding how drawLine works

Question

Given the following code:

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class NewClass extends JPanel {
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        g.drawLine(0, 0, 90, 90);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JFrame jf = new JFrame();
        jf.add(new NewClass());
        jf.setSize(500, 500);
        jf.setVisible(true);
    }
}

Why does it draw a line if the method drawLine is abstract and, as I managed to understand, an abstract method has no definition?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

paintComponent() gets a non-abstract sub-class of Graphics, which implements drawLine(). It must get a non-abstract sub-class, since an abstract class cannot be instantiated.

Answer 2

public void paintComponent(Graphics g) 

Here Graphics have abstract method drawLine that does not have a body implemented but its subclasses have concrete implementations for drawLine. When paintComponent is called, object of appropriate non-abstract subclass of Graphics is passed