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What is Inheritance in java?

Royce Roy 1614 28-Mar-2015

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28-Mar-2015

Inheritance in java is a mechanism in which one object acquires all the properties and behaviors of parent object.

The idea behind inheritance in java is that you can create new classes that are built upon existing classes. When you inherit from an existing class, you can reuse methods and fields of parent class, and you can add new methods and fields also

Inheritance represents the IS-A relationship, also known as parent-child relationship

Why use inheritance in java

For Method Overriding (so runtime polymorphism can be achieved).
For Code Reusability.

The extends keyword indicates that you are making a new class that derives from an existing class.
In the terminology of Java, a class that is inherited is called a super class. The new class is called a subclass.

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