Casting is a way of explicitly communicating ... In this video, you can follow along while I debug and explain the Java inheritance challenge. Rafael del Nero is a Java Champion and Oracle Ace ...

We will focus on the relationship between polymorphism and Java inheritance ... The technique we’re using here is casting, or deliberately changing the object type at runtime.

Java's open inheritance model can feel like an open invitation to unintended extensions. The problem becomes especially poignant when a switch statement or a nesting of if statements assumes that a ...