Overloading Java function with List<> parameter

Question

I have 2 classes

public class Customer{
  ...
  public String getCustomerNumber();
  ...
}

public class Applicant{
   ....
   private Customer c;
   public Cust         


        

Answer 1

Before coming into the method names , the class hierarchy is little bit confusing...

public class Customer{          
  ...          
  public String getCustomerNumber();          
  ...          
}          

public class Applicant{          
   ....          
   private Customer c;          
   public Customer getCustomer(){ return c; }          
   ...          
}    

Why should applicant and Customer be different objects ? Can you tell the relation between these objects ?