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Types of Inheritance

Types of Inheritance

Learn about the various types of inheritance in Java.

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Based upon superclasses and subclasses, there are the following five types of inheritance in general:

  1. Single
  2. Multi-level
  3. Hierarchical
  4. Multiple
  5. Hybrid

Single Inheritance

In single inheritance, there is only a single class extending from another class. We can take the example of the Vehicle class (Super class) and the Car ...