Inheritance of final fields in Java?

Question

What happens when a superclass has a field marked final, but a subclass overrides (hides?) this field? \'Final\' doesn\'t stop this, does it? The specific example I\'m work

Answer 1

Agree with other answers, but I think the following implementation is better in this case:

    public abstract class Building {

        private final int cost;

        public Building(int cost) {
            this.cost = cost;
        }

        public final int getCost() {
            return cost;
        }
    }

    class Skyscraper extends Building {
        public Skyscraper() {
            super(100500);
        }
    }

Of course the field could be made public, but that's the other story...