Java Tidbits .......................... ( Riding over Methods )

Method Overriding is form of Polymorphism . Since which method to be called will be  resolved at runtime  by the  object assigned to reference.

Rules for overriding are :

• A method if overridden in subclass should have same argument.
• same or  extended return type(Covariant)
• arguments can be declared as final additionally in subclass provided the datatype is same .
• can throw checked exception if base class method too throws the checked exception .
• the exception thrown can be  either same or subclass of  thrown exception in base method.
• // Rule hold only for checked exception 
• Access modifiers can make it less restrictive, but not more restrictive.

Field Hiding
A subclass cannot override fields of the superclass, but it can hide them by declaring  with same name .
if  want to access  base class's field then  user super to invoke  field .

While implementing interfaces all above rules are applicable for overriding interface declared methods too.
Exception and return of covariant types are applicable .

Can a private method be overridden by a subclass?
NO! Since the subclass,  cannot inherit a private method, it therefore cannot override the method—overriding depends on inheritance.