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

We also learned how to use inheritance and polymorphism to speed up our code implementation time and to isolate bugs, which makes our code maintenance tasks much easier.

Why does Java's standard class library contain empty interfaces like Cloneable and Serializable? Find out why in this sixth installment in the "Object-oriented language basics" series. You'll also ...

There are three major features in object-oriented programming that makes them different than non-OOP languages: encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. Encapsulation Enforces Modularity ...