Inheritance and composition are two programming techniques developers use to establish the relationship between classes and objects. Whereas inheritance derives one class from another, composition ...

In Java 101: Inheritance in Java, Part 1, you learned how to leverage inheritance for code reuse, by establishing is-a relationships between classes. Composition is a closely related programming ...

This is something I have wondered for a while, and having dug up some old code, the thought has been re-ignited in my brain.<BR><BR>If private inheritance describes an 'implemented in terms of' ...