Inheritance and composition are two programming techniques developers use to establish the relationship between classes and objects. Whereas inheritance derives one class from another, composition ...

Inheritance is a common pattern in object-oriented programming, but it’s not easily replicated in a database. This Java tip shows you how to model inheritance relationships in JPA with Hibernate.

Twenty-three years ago, in his Design Principles and Design Patterns article, Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin boiled down the Liskov substitution principle to the idea that "derived classes should be ...