Imagine you are an expert object-oriented Java developer who meticulously crafts code the way an artist cares for their masterpiece. You believe clean code is an absolute necessity. Classes with clear ...

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

You will recall from Java 101: Classes and objects in Java that encapsulation refers to combining constructors, fields, and methods into a class’s body. In inheritance, a subclass relies on ...