The first half of this introduction to Java inheritance ... to less specific “parent” categories (higher up). The example in Figure 1 illustrates single inheritance in which a child category ...

Now let’s try the same example ... related through inheritance, the child class must be able to access every accessible field, method, or constructor of its parent class. In Java, we use the ...

If another developer attempts to extend your parent ... Java to control your inheritance Need to limit the number of possible subclasses in your codebase? Here comes Java's sealed classes to your ...