What are the 5 types of inheritance?

 


The concept of inheritance is considered among the most crucial concepts of object-oriented programming.

Inheritance in Java is considered as a process where one class inherits the property of its parent class.

When we simply define inheritance, we call it the capability of a class that derives the properties or features of other classes. The new class will be created as the ‘ derived class’ and the existing class will be known as base or parent class.

Talking about the types of inheritance, it is generally of five types.

Here, in this blog we are going to discuss all these inheritance types in detail with the help of examples.

Without any ado, let’s get started!

Types of inheritance


In case of inheritance, one class derives the properties from its parent class. Here, any new class will be derived from its existing class. This new class is the derived class and our current class will be termed as the base class.

When we talk about inheritance in Java, there are mainly five types of inheritance that we are going to discuss.


Hierarchical inheritance


The hierarchical inheritance in java is defined as a class, where the number of classes will be derived from any single base class.

In simple terms, in this type of inheritance, one or more classes will inherit the property of its base class...

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