The final Keyword

If you don't want other classes to inherit from a class, use the final keyword:

If you try to access a final class, Java will generate an error:

final class Vehicle {
  ...
}

class Car extends Vehicle {
  ...
}

The output will be something like this:

Main.java:9: error: cannot inherit from final Vehicle
class Main extends Vehicle {
^
1 error)

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