The reasons for omitting multiple inheritance from the Java language mostly stem from the “simple, object oriented, and familiar” goal. As a simple language, Java’s creators wanted a ...

but Martin's quick description initially reads like a summary of Java's out-of-the-box inheritance and polymorphism mechanisms. We need to dig deeper to understand what he really meant, to then ...

Java's open inheritance model can feel like an open invitation to unintended extensions. The problem becomes especially poignant when a switch statement or a nesting of if statements assumes that a ...

Hibernate, an Open Source object-relational mapping and persistence framework provides three strategies for entity inheritance. In the first of the series of two articles, we explore a simple ...