Java does not support multiple inheritance
compiler will confuse when two super class has same method name. The above is correct, and it's a DESIGN decision made by the originator of Java, James Gosling. That is, Gosling recognized that true Multiple Inheritance has a certain amount of ambiguity involved, and mistakes around that ambiguity are easy to make and hard to detect. So, Gosling decided that Java should not allow Multiple Inheritance at all. Almost all of the functionality of class-based Multiple Inheritance can be obtained via Interfaces. Additionally, not supporting Multiple Inheritance greatly simplifies the compiler requirements, and makes the JVM faster and easier to create.
One of the main reasons for creating Java was to address the problems of C++. One such problem was multiple inheritance, which was prone to ambiguity when a class inherited from two separate classes which shared a function with an identical definition. The designers of Java decided to eliminate this problem altogether by only allowing a class to inherit from a single other concrete class.
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Java does not support multiple inheritance. It is done with the help of interfaces in java. a class can implement n number of interfaces, thus showing multiple inheritance. but a class cannot extend multiple classes in java.
Java does not allow the multiple inheritance of concrete classes, though it does allow a "hybrid" inheritance of one concrete class and multiple interfaces.
Java does not support direct multiple inheritance. You can implement partial multiple inheritance using interfaces. ex: public class ExMultInherit implements interface1, interface2, interface 3 { ... .... ...... }
There are no drawbacks to multiple inheritance if multiple inheritance is precisely what is required to achieve your goal. If there are any drawbacks then it is only because of poor design, not multiple inheritance itself. For instance, when designing classes to simulate vehicles, an amphibious vehicle would inherit the properties of both an off-road vehicle and a marine vehicle, therefore multiple inheritance would be an appropriate usage.
C is not object-oriented -- you can't even use single inheritance let alone multiple inheritance.
Java does not support direct multiple Inheritance. Harder to implement, not every language support it: C++ does, Java does not.
Actually, java does not support multiple inheritance. You can achieve partial multiple inheritance using interfaces but java is not like C or C++ where you can do direct multiple inheritance. However, you can achieve partial multiple inheritance with the help of interfaces. Ex: public class FerrariF12011 extends Ferrari implements Car, Automobile {…} And this is under the assumption that Car and Automobile are interfaces. Here if you see, though you don't inherit concrete code from the Car or the Automobile interface, you do inherit skeleton methods that determine the way your class eventually behaves and hence this can be considered partial Multiple Inheritance.
There are only two types of inheritance to begin with: single inheritance and multiple inheritance. Since they are mutually exclusive there is no such thing as hybrid inheritance.