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  1. When you extends a class, you can change the behavior of a method in the parent class.
  2. This is called method overriding.
  3. This happens when you write in a subclass a method that has the same signature as a method in the parent class.
  4. If only the name is the same but the list of arguments is not, then it is method overloading.








5.22.Inheritance
5.22.1.Inheritance
5.22.2.Accessibility
5.22.3.Method Overriding
5.22.4.The extends Keyword
5.22.5.Deriving a Class
5.22.6.The keyword super represents an instance of the direct superclass of the current object.
5.22.7.Derived Class Constructors: Calling the Base Class Constructor
5.22.8.Overriding a Base Class Method
5.22.9.Type Casting
5.22.10.Inheritance, constructors and arguments
5.22.11.Combining composition and inheritance
5.22.12.Inheritance and upcasting.
5.22.13.Overloading a base-class method name in a derived class does not hide the base-class versions.
5.22.14.Cleanup and inheritance
5.22.15.Creating a Multilevel Hierarchy
5.22.16.Demonstrate when constructors are called in a Multilevel Hierarchy