diff --git a/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/deploy/InheritInfo.java b/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/deploy/InheritInfo.java
index 4476c2f81..6554edf59 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/deploy/InheritInfo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/deploy/InheritInfo.java
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
 import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 /**
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ public class InheritInfo {
 
   private final Class<?> type;
 
-  private final ArrayList<InheritInfo> children = new ArrayList<>();
+  private final List<InheritInfo> children = new ArrayList<>();
 
   /**
    * Map of discriminator values to InheritInfo.
@@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ public class InheritInfo {
    * return true if anything in the inheritance hierarchy has a relationship with a save cascade on
    * it.
    */
-  public boolean isSaveRecurseSkippable() {
+  boolean isSaveRecurseSkippable() {
     return root.isNodeSaveRecurseSkippable();
   }
 
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ public class InheritInfo {
    * return true if anything in the inheritance hierarchy has a relationship with a delete cascade
    * on it.
    */
-  public boolean isDeleteRecurseSkippable() {
+  boolean isDeleteRecurseSkippable() {
     return root.isNodeDeleteRecurseSkippable();
   }
 
@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ public class InheritInfo {
   /**
    * Return the children.
    */
-  public ArrayList<InheritInfo> getChildren() {
+  public List<InheritInfo> getChildren() {
     return children;
   }
 
@@ -188,7 +189,7 @@ public class InheritInfo {
   /**
    * Get the bean property additionally looking in the sub types.
    */
-  public BeanProperty findSubTypeProperty(String propertyName) {
+  BeanProperty findSubTypeProperty(String propertyName) {
 
     BeanProperty prop;
 
@@ -227,7 +228,7 @@ public class InheritInfo {
   /**
    * Return the associated InheritInfo for this discriminator value.
    */
-  public InheritInfo readType(String discValue) {
+  InheritInfo readType(String discValue) {
 
     if (discValue == null) {
       return null;
@@ -371,7 +372,7 @@ public class InheritInfo {
   /**
    * Return the discriminator value for this node.
    */
-  public String getDiscriminatorStringValue() {
+  String getDiscriminatorStringValue() {
     return discriminatorStringValue;
   }