Java Inheritance - calling superclass method

Question

Lets suppose I have the following two classes

public class alpha {

    public alpha(){
        //some logic
    }

    public void alphaMethod1(){
        /         


        

Answer 1

It is possible to use super to call the method from mother class, but this would mean you probably have a design problem. Maybe B.alphaMethod1() shouldn't override A's method and be called B.betaMethod1().

If it depends on the situation, you can put some code logic like :

public void alphaMethod1(){
    if (something) {
        super.alphaMethod1();
        return;
    }
    // Rest of the code for other situations
}

Like this it will only call A's method when needed and will remain invisible for the class user.