Question

If I have a class that I would like to customise by overriding one if its methods the only I can do this is by using inheritance (sub-classing and overriding method) ? Is it possible to use composition in some way to achieve same goal ?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use delegation. Instead of deriving from Foo in the example below, Bar contains a Foo and delegates to it where it chooses.

interface SomeMethods {
  void doSomething();
  void doSomethingElse();
}

class Foo implements SomeMethod {
  public void doSomething() { // implementation }
  public void doSomethingElse() { // implementation }
}

class Bar implements SomeMethod {
   private final Foo foo = new Foo();

   public void doSomething() { foo.doSomething(); }
   public void doSomethingElse() { // do something else! }
}