Inheritance

Inheritance

-Passing of property(such as member data and  member function) from one class to another class is called Inheritance.
-The class that gives the properties is called Base class /  Super class /  Parent class.
-The class that recieves the properties is called Derived class /  Sub class /  Child class.

Why Inheritance ?

-For code re-usability.
-Flexibility to the programmer.
-Extending
-Overriding.

Types of Inheritance :

1. Single Inheritance

2. Multiple Inheritance

3. Multilevel Inheritance

4.Hybrid Inheritance

5. Hierarchical Inheritance

NOTE :

- Java does not support Multiple Inheritance, one child class only have one parent class.

- Java does not support virtual data,virtual methods and virtual classes..

- Java does not support Operation overloading,inline function and templates.