The first half of this tutorial introduced the basics of inheritance in Java. You learned how to use Java’s extends and super keywords to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent ...

This is an example of Java inheritance with method overriding. First, we extend the Animal class to create a new Cat class. Next, we override the Animal class’s emitSound() ...

Java does enable the option to mark a class as final to eliminate the ability to perform inheritance complete, but that is often too heavy of a hammer to drop. Marking a class as final prevents all ...