Inheritance means that a new class can be defined in terms of an existing class. There are three common terminologies for the new class: the derived class, the child class, or the subclass. The original class is the base class, the parent class, or the superclass. The new child class inherits all capabilities of the parent class and adds its own fields and methods. Altho inheritance is very important, especially in many libraries, is often not used in an application.
2004-06-29
