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Chapter 11. Custom Nodes and Overriding > Overriding a Node
Overriding a Node
Before you can learn about overriding a node, a critical question needs to be answered. What is overriding?
Classes, such as Node and SwingComboBox, contain methods and properties. You as a developer can take these methods and properties and change their default actions to whatever you want. For example, let’s say you have a Dog class with a method called displayBreed(), as shown here:
