Although Java prevents a developer from extending more than one class, a simple trick can be used to simulate multiple inheritance. I have used this technique in both a Swing application and a Web ...

July 19, 2002. Q: Why doesn’t the Java language support multiple inheritance? A: Whenever you find yourself asking why Java has or does not have some feature, consider the design goals behind ...

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 ...

Inheritance mapping and support for polymorphic queries was a crucial feature missing in the traditional EJB 2.1 Entity Beans model. Hibernate, an Open Source object-relational mapping and ...