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 ...

Compare inheritance and composition, the two fundamental ways to relate Java classes, then practice debugging ClassCastExceptions in Java inheritance.

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 ...

The sealed Java class helps reign in the overzealous and often detrimental abuse of Java inheritance. Sealed classes allow a developer to explicitly declare the names of the components that can ...