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subclass comparison table

Subject	is a subtopic of	access		create using	inherit	is a kind of	define	hide	have example of creation	use	override	has definition
descendent	Inheritance	any public class in other packages	if a class is not declared public then it is accessible only to members of the same package		behaviour from its superclass	class	a class type whose instances are the values of the class type			an implements clause to declare that it contains methods for each of the operations specified by the interface	methods that are inherited from the class's superclass	A class that inherits from another
subclass	Classes	overridden methods using the keyword super	subclass must override any method that is declared abstract in the superclass or the subclass must be declared abstract	the extends keyword	none, some or all of its state from all its ancestors	descendent	until its direct superclass has been defined	an inherited member variable by declaring a member variable with the same name	public class Movie extends Attraction	any member that is inherited	any method that is declared final in the superclass	A class that is an extension of another class, and hence inherits from the other class

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