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Inheritance, Accessibility & Overriding

Inheritance, accessibility modifiers, and method overriding are fundamental concepts in object-oriented programming (OOP), including Java. Let’s explore each of these concepts:

Overview

  • What is Inheritance?
  • Accessibility
  • Method Overriding
  • Calling the Superclass’s Constructors
  • Type Casting
  • The instanceof Keyword

What Is Inheritance?

  • Concept of OOP, using which we organize classes in hierarchy.
  • Used to avoid redundancy and avoid duplication
  • Child classes are created using “extends” keyword.
  • Parent class is called as “Super Class” and child is called as a “Sub Class”.
  • No multiple inheritance in java.
  • Inheritance creates “Is a” relationship between classes
  • Let’s see the code.

Accessibility

  • Within a package, a sub class can access all non-private members of super class
  • Outside package, only public and protected members could be accessed by a sub class.
  • Time to code.

Method Overriding

  • When a sub class changes the behavior of a method of its parent class, that is known as method overriding.
  • Method signature needs to be same for calling it method overriding.
  • Different from method overloading
  • Use “final” to prevent method overriding.