Extends is the most misused keyword in the Java lexicon.
In my constant and probably losing battle against poor design, I keep finding systems with a rather rich abundance of implementation inheritance. I’ve actually recently seen systems with seven or more levels of inheritance, where just about every object extends some class that (eventually) extends AbstractBaseObject [...]
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