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Inheritance allows a class to inherit data and behaviors from another class, known as its parent or super class. This is called an "is-a" relationship and allows for code reusability. A child or subclass inherits all public and protected members of the parent class. Inheritance in Java supports three types: single inheritance where a class inherits from one parent class; multi-level inheritance where a child class inherits from its parent and grandparent; and hierarchical inheritance where a parent class is inherited by multiple child classes.

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20 June 2022

Inheritance allows a class to inherit data and behaviors from another class, known as its parent or super class. This is called an "is-a" relationship and allows for code reusability. A child or subclass inherits all public and protected members of the parent class. Inheritance in Java supports three types: single inheritance where a class inherits from one parent class; multi-level inheritance where a child class inherits from its parent and grandparent; and hierarchical inheritance where a parent class is inherited by multiple child classes.

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Understanding Inheritance

⚫ Inheritance is the ability of a class inheriting data and


behaviors from another class.
⚫ It is also called “Is-A” relation.
⚫ The main advantage of inheritance is code reusability. ⚫ By
using "extends" keyword we can implement IS-A relationship.
⚫ After inheriting the complete functionality of super class Sub
class can access the super class methods with its reference
object.
Common Terminology:
Parent class – Child class
Base class - Derived class
Super class - Sub class
⚫ All the data and methods which were present in parent
class is by default available to child class, but the reverse
is not applicable.
⚫ Hence by using child class reference we can call
both parent and child class methods.
⚫ But by using parent reference we can call only methods
available in the parent class and we can't call child class
specific methods.
⚫ Parent class reference can be used to hold child class
object, but Child class reference cannot be used to hold
parent class object.
⚫ For all the java classes including predefined and user
defined classes Object class acts as the super class to be
precise java.lang.Object class is superclass of all
classes.
⚫ When a class extends another class, the subclass
inherits all the public and protected members of the
super class. The default members are inherited only in
the same package.
⚫ Constructors are not inherited in to the sub class during
inheritance, we can call the constructors of super class by
invoking super class object.
Types Of Inheritance:
⚫ Java supports ‘3’ types of inheritance.
1. Single Inheritance
2. Multi-Level Inheritance

3. Hierarchal Inheritance

Single Inheritance
⚫ Every java class by default inherits from “java.lang.Object” class. ⚫
By this extension only, every user object gets the behavior of real
Object.
⚫ Hence every java class exhibits by default “Single Inheritance”. ⚫
Single Inheritance enables a derived class(Sub class) to inherit
properties and behavior from a single parent class

Multi-Level Inheritance
⚫ Accessing the functionality of objects in more than
one level is called “Multi-Level Inheritance”.
⚫ Child class accessing the functionality of grand

parent.

Hierarchal Inheritance
⚫ Sharing the properties of object to multiple child
objects is called “Hierarchal Inheritance”.

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