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 ...

If you need to have objects look alike but don't have any code to share, you don't need inheritance -- you need an interface. Here's an example of how interfaces provide a more flexible way to deal ...

Inheritance lets you define objects for easy reuse. The advantage of this is that you can alter controls—both your own and those created by others—so they behave exactly as you need them to. This is ...

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' ...