Polymorphism(also called dynamic binding or late binding or run-time binding) is an essential concept in OOP. This chapter is basically a more detailed explanation of polymorphism, which is highly relevant to inheritance. (As mentioned in chapter 7, in many cases inheritance is meaningless when polymorphism is not necessary.)
March 2016
TIJ chapter 7: Reusing Classess
Composition, inheritance and delegation are 3 main methods to reuse classes.
Delegation is not a familiar concept for me, and it is not directly supported. However, I think I have used its content before. It just put a member object in the new class and expose all method to the new one.
About inheritance, it always calls the super() constructor even if you don’t called it literally in derived class. As a result, if the base class don’t have a constructor without any parameters, and you don’t call base class constructor literally in derived class, you will get a compile time error.