When do we need explicit casting for the object assignment?

While assigning an object of data type ‘Superclass’ to an object of the data type ‘Subclass’, explicit casting is required. If we do the reverse, then the casting is done automatically.

Object objRef = new CustomeClass();
CustomeClass customeClassRef = new CustomeClass();

customeClassRef = (CustomClass) objRef; //explict casting required
objRef = customClassRef; //explict casting NOT required

Note: Since, ‘Object’ is a cosmic superclass of all the class in Java, so it’ll automatically be a superclas of ‘CustomClass’ as well.