Stopping inheritance without using final

Question

Is there any other method of stopping inheritance of a class apart from declaring it as final or by declaring its constructor as private?

Answer 1

Using final is the canonical way.

public final class FinalClass {
  // Class definition
}

If you want to prevent individual methods from being overridden, you can declare them as final instead. (I'm just guessing here, as to why you would want to avoid making the whole class final.)