Compare inheritance and composition, the two fundamental ways to relate Java classes, then practice debugging ClassCastExceptions in Java inheritance. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud ...

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 ...

Because you can extend at most one other class (recall from Part 1 that Java doesn’t support class-based multiple inheritance), you’re not forced to explicitly extend Object; otherwise, you ...