Use Java's extends keyword to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent class constructors and methods, override methods, and more.

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

When to use overloaded constructors As you can see, it can make sense to perform constructor overloading even in a simple Java class that that has only two properties. For more complex classes, it's ...

Constructors play a key role in all object-oriented programming languages, and Java is no exception. Every class a Java developer creates needs a constructor. Constructors perform numerous important ...