We will focus on the relationship between polymorphism and Java inheritance ... That’s ugly code, isn’t it? Imagine trying to maintain it! Now look at the same example with polymorphism ...

Polymorphism adds the ability to have the same piece of code act differently based on the type of object it is dealing with. First, we will look at inheritance. One of the benefits of using ...

Both the base and the derived classes have the same method with identical signatures. We use method overriding to implement run time polymorphism or late binding. The following code snippet shows ...

My previous article Code Craft – Embedding C++ ... isn’t the raison d’etre for them but to provide inheritance, or more specifically polymorphism, (from Greek polys, “many, much ...