Although Java prevents a developer from extending more than one class, a simple trick can be used to simulate multiple inheritance. I have used this technique in both a Swing application and a Web ...

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.

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 ...

It seems that MI has fallen severely out of favor. Neither of the two "big" programming languages to come out in the last few years, Java or C#, make use of multiple implementation inheritance ...