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Subclass

By Paul Leahy, About.com

Definition: A subclass is a class that extends another class. The subclass inherits the state and behaviors of the class it extends.
Also Known As: derived class, child class
Examples:

Imagine you define a Person class:

public class Person
{

}

A new class can be created by extending the Person class. Here the Employee class is a subclass of the Person class:

public class Employee extends Person
{

}

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