Studying Object and its methods will give you a more functional understanding of Java inheritance and how it works in your programs: All about Object: Java’s superclass; How to extend Object: An ...

In Java 101: Inheritance in Java, Part 1, you learned how to leverage inheritance for code reuse, by establishing is-a relationships between classes.Composition is a closely related programming ...

Twenty-three years ago, in his Design Principles and Design Patterns article, Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin boiled down the Liskov substitution principle to the idea that "derived classes should be ...