Inheritance

Inheritance

1. You can extend a class with the "extends" command. A class can only extend one other class.

2. A subclass inherits all public methods of its superclass. However, all private methods in the superclass are not accessible by the subclass.

3. You cannot access a protected method of a superclass from a subclass (ex. subclass.protectedmoethod()) .

4. You can overload a method in the parent class by writing a method in the child class that has the same name but different functionality.

5. You can override a method by writing a method in the child class with the same signature as a method in the parent class. This changes the behavior of the method in the parent class.

6. You can only cast an object from a subclass to its superclass.

7. Inheritance allows you to add functionality that doesn't already exist in the class

8. A subclass is a special type of its superclass

9. When you create a child object, all parent classes are also initiated.

10. You can prevent classes from extending a class by making it a final class.