The basic idea of Inheritance is to create the new class (called child class or derived or subclass) from an existing class (called parent class or Base or Superclass) . That is, the child class inherits the properties (methods and fields) of the parent class.
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In Java, inheritance is an is-a relationship. That is, we use inheritance only if there exists an is-a relationship between two classes. For example, Car is a Vehicle .
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On the basis of class, there can be three types of inheritance in java: single, multilevel and hierarchical . In java programming, multiple and hybrid inheritance is supported through interface only. We will learn about interfaces later.
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