I am only on page 33 of Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in Java" and I am so
confused by one point that I can go no further without getting this
straightened out.  On page 33 Bruce is explaining inheritance.  The text
which confuses me is " ... all the messages you can send to objects of ...

In my application I create a URL string and make a new URL object out
of it.
URL url = new URL(URLString);
Now I make a URLCONNECTION object as follows