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Types of Inheritance

Explore the five main types of inheritance in Java including single, multi-level, hierarchical, multiple, and hybrid inheritance. Understand how classes relate through these inheritance models and learn how Java implements complex inheritance using interfaces to write modular and reusable code.

Based upon superclasses and subclasses, there are the following five types of inheritance in general:

  1. Single
  2. Multi-level
  3. Hierarchical
  4. Multiple
  5. Hybrid

Single Inheritance

In single inheritance, there is only a single class extending from another class. We can take the example of the Vehicle class (Super class) and the Car ...