Overriding final methods

[Srinivasa Raghavan]

Normally methods declared as final cannot be overriden for security / design reasons.

But when a method declared as "private final" can be overriden in the child class. Do we get this behaviour since private members are not accessible in child ?
[ February 17, 2005: Message edited by: Srinivasa Raghavan ]

[Chengwei Lee]

Private methods in the parent class are not in inherited by the child classes. Hence, having methods of the same signature as well as being declared private & final does not equate to method overriding.

HTH

[Kris Lightsey]

And it is not just a question of semantics. Overridden methods will show polymorphic behavior but redefining private methods with the same name and signature will not.