Java doesn’t support multiple inheritance through class extension, however. When viewing an inheritance hierarchy, you can easily detect multiple inheritance by the presence of a diamond pattern.

The first half of this tutorial introduced the basics of inheritance in Java. You learned how to use Java’s extends and super keywords to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent ...

Java does enable the option to mark a class as final to eliminate the ability to perform inheritance complete, but that is often too heavy of a hammer to drop. Marking a class as final prevents all ...