The first half of this introduction to Java inheritance teaches you how to use the extends keyword to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent class constructors and methods ...

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 ...

In fact, the need to use multiple inheritance could be a sign of a bad design. There are times, however, when developers wish they could extend more than one class. Although Java prevents a ...