This looks like the Liskov substitution principle that Uncle Bob Martin described: Substitute a derived class (Square) for a base class (Rectangle). From the standpoint of the compiler, the above code ...

Type erasure in Java generics programming can cause a variety of problems in your code. Fortunately, there are ways to work around them.

Inheritance is problematic because it breaks encapsulation. You will recall from Java 101: Classes and objects in Java that encapsulation refers to combining constructors, fields, and methods into ...