Ever a case when a class cannot extend or inherit anything

[Wilson Mui]

Is there ever a case, between, nested, top-level, anonymous, etc. classes that can not extend another class or inherit an interface. I know for anonymous classes you can not both extend and inherit (nor do multiple inheritance), but are there any other specifications for inheritance or extending?

[Mandar Puranik]

Hi Wilson,
If a class has a final access modifier, then we cannot extend that class.
For eg.

public final class TryToExtend
{
  //class code...
}

We wont be able to extend this class as it is defined as final class.

Hope this helps.
Best Regards
Mandar
[ May 10, 2003: Message edited by: Mandar Puranik ]