Java Programming by Pearson

210 • Java Programming

8.2.5 Hybrid Inheritance

Consider Figure 8.4 as shown below.

Class D

Class A

Class B Class C

Figure 8.4 Implementation of hybrid inheritance

For the fi rst half of the fi gure, the hierarchical inheritance is shown by breaking the fi gure:

Class A

Class B Class C

The second half of the fi gure shows multiple inheritance:

Class D

Class B Class C

The second figure for hybrid inheritance may be viewed as shown below:

Class A

Class B

Class D

Class C

As said earlier, Java does not support multiple inheritance through classes, so code for the above will be

given while working with interfaces.

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