Disabling inherited method on derived class

Question

Is there any way to, in a Java derived class, \"disable\" a method and/or field that is otherwise inherited from a base class?

For example, say you have a Shap

Answer 1

No.

• you can pull the method down in only the Circle class (or an interface that is implemented only by that class)
• you can provide an empty implementations or ones that throw UnsupportedOperationException in the classes that do not support it.