Java supports class reuse through inheritance and composition. This two-part tutorial teaches you how to use inheritance in your Java programs. What you’ll learn in this Java tutorial ...

Inheritance is a compile-time mechanism in Java that allows you to extend a class (called the baseclass or superclass) with another class (called the derived class or subclass). In Java,inheritance is ...

The first half of this tutorial introduced the basics of inheritance in Java. You learned how to use Java’s extends and super keywords to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent ...