Suppose I have a method in a Java class, and I don’t want any subclass of that class to be able to override that method. Can I do that?
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Suppose I have a method in a Java class, and I don’t want any subclass of that class to be able to override that method. Can I do that?
You can declare the method to be
final, as in:For more info, see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/final.html