Multilevel Inheritance in Java

Posted on November 12th, 2008, by Manoj Shah

It is the enhancement of the concept of inheritance. When a subclass is derived from a derived class then this mechanism is known as the multilevel inheritance. The derived class is called the subclass or child class for it’s parent class and this parent class works as the child class for it’s just above ( parent ) class.  Multilevel inheritance can go up to any number of level.
e.g.

class A {
int x;
int y;
int get(int p, int q){
x=p; y=q; return(0);
}
void Show(){
System.out.println(x);
}
}
class B extends A{
void Showb(){
System.out.println("B");
}
}

class C extends B{
void display(){
System.out.println(“C”);
}
public static void main(String args[]){
A a = new A();
a.get(5,6);
a.Show();
}
}

Java does not support multiple Inheritance

Multiple Inheritance

The mechanism of inheriting the features of more than one base class into a single class is known as multiple inheritance. Java does not support multiple inheritance but the multiple inheritance can be achieved by using the interface.

In Java Multiple Inheritance can be achieved through use of Interfaces by implementing more than one interfaces in a class.

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