I am creating a new custom JTextField object. I am overwriting my
existing getText() method inside of it.  The problem I am having is I
don't know to get the text from the actual text field while I'm in my
new getText() method.  I tried casting my object but that didn't work.
so my overall code looked something like this:

public Class CustJTextField extends JTextField {

  private int length;

  CustJTextField(int length) {
      this.length = length
   }

  public String getText() {
     String text = ((JtextField)this).getText()
     if (text.length() > length) {
        return null;
     }
     return text
  }
}

Thats a much simpler form of what I'm coding, but you should be able to
get the idea.  Unfortunately calling the getText method with in my
custom GetText method, ends up with a stack overflow error.  Is there
some way to reference the base method?  Thanks for any help you guys
can provide