Does 'extends Object' have a purpose or is it redundant?

Question

Following a tutorial on the internet regarding Soap development with Java, I found this link, with a rather unusual code for myself.

The code:

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Answer 1

There is one possibility and that is the person who made it don't want you to extend any classes. You can always do a workaround of course but that is the only thing I can come up with that makes sense.