Chapter 5. Inheritance

In this chapter

• 5.1 Classes, Superclasses, and Subclasses

• 5.2 Object: The Cosmic Superclass

• 5.3 Generic Array Lists

• 5.4 Object Wrappers and Autoboxing

• 5.5 Methods with a Variable Number of Parameters

• 5.6 Enumeration Classes

• 5.7 Reflection

• 5.8 Design Hints for Inheritance

Chapter 4 introduced you to classes and objects. In this chapter, you will learn about inheritance, another fundamental concept of object-oriented programming. The idea behind inheritance is that you can create new classes that are built on existing classes. When you inherit from an existing class, you reuse (or inherit) its methods, and you can add new methods and fields to adapt your new class to new situations. This technique is essential ...

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