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 ...

We’ll look at each of these methods and how you can use them to perform special tasks in the context of your Java classes ... and mechanisms for Object inheritance. class CloneDemo implements ...

Java's open inheritance model can feel like an open invitation to unintended extensions. The problem becomes especially poignant when a switch statement or a nesting of if statements assumes that a ...

That's a good start to help developers understand LSP, but Martin's quick description initially reads like a summary of Java's out-of-the-box inheritance and polymorphism mechanisms. We need to dig ...