Final Methods

• A final method cannot be overridden by subclasses.
• It prevents unexpected behavior from a subclass altering a method that may be crucial to the function or consistency of the class
• private and static methods are always implicitly final, since they cannot be overridden by the sub-class.

package com.ibytecode.keywords.finaldemo;

class MyMath
{
	public final double abs(double d)
	{
		double value = (d < 0) ? -d : d;
		return value;
	}
}

class B extends MyMath
{
	//Compiler ERROR: Cannot override the final method from MyMath
	public double abs(double d) 
	{
		double value = (d <= 0.0D) ? 0.0D - d : d;
		return value;
	}
}