Although Java prevents a developer from extending more than one class, a simple trick can be used to simulate multiple inheritance. I have used this technique in both a Swing application and a Web ...

July 19, 2002. Q: Why doesn’t the Java language support multiple inheritance? A: Whenever you find yourself asking why Java has or does not have some feature, consider the design goals behind ...

Twenty-three years ago, in his Design Principles and Design Patterns article, Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin boiled down the Liskov substitution principle to the idea that "derived classes should be ...

Java does enable the option to mark a class as final to eliminate the ability to perform inheritance complete, but that is often too heavy of a hammer to drop. Marking a class as final prevents all ...

Inheritance mapping and support for polymorphic queries was a crucial feature missing in the traditional EJB 2.1 Entity Beans model. Hibernate, an Open Source object-relational mapping and ...