Inheritance in Java

In this chapter we will use inheritance to design classes based on other classes.

Objectives

• Understand the concept of inheritance in Java.
• Use and recognize the UML "generalization" arrow.
• Be able to specialize classes using the extends keyword.

Topics

• Inheritance
• The extends Keyword
• final Classes *
• UML and extends
• Inheriting Fields *
• Inheriting Methods *
• Lab - Creating a Class Hierarchy

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