First of all the question is wrong the correct one is.........

Q)why java classes does not support Multiple Inheritance?

JAVA CLASSES ONLY NOT SUPPORT MULTIPLE INHERITANCE.But Java Interfaces can support Multiple Inheritance.

Ans...>java classes doesn't support multiple inheritance,the practical reason is there


public class superclass1
{
int a,b;
public void m1()
{
.....
....
}

}

public class superclass2
{
int a,b;
public void m1()
{
.....
....
}

}

public class subclass extends superclass1,superclass2
{

........... here we are getting the ambiguity to extends the
.......... methods and variables.Because here we are using the same
........... user defined methods in both super classes.When we
............ are extends the both super classes [ superclass1 and
.......... superclass2 ] , getting the confusion.Because in both super classes are have same user defined methods.

}
That's why java classes does not support multiple inheritance.But java interfaces supports multiple inheritance.Because interface doesn't contain concrete methods, it contain only abstract methods.So there is no problem to use multiple inheritacne in this case.

Hi Friend,

When we extends more than one class, JVM get confused as to which method it should call. This causes complexity and inconsistency. So to avoid these
complexities and inconsistencies Java does not support Multiple Inheritance.

Thanks

Let be specific. Java Does NOT support - multiple IMPLEMENTATION Inheritance, but but wait JAVA SUPPORTS MULTIPLE INTERFACE INHERITANCE How? One of the way it can do is using the Adapter pattern.

e.g. consider and Employee class which needs to extend 2 concrete classes say Person and Employment So guys lets do it this upfront now create 2 interfaces viz. 1. PersonLike* which will be implemented by the concrete class Person and 2. EmployeeLike* which will be implemented by the concrete class Employment

Suppose the PersonLike interface is:

public interface PersonLike {
String getName();
int getAge();
} 
and the EmployeeLike interface is: 

public interface EmployeeLike {
float getSalary();
java.util.Date getHireDate();
} 


Here is how our Employee class which needs to extend 2 concrete classes say Person and Employment as below


public class **Employee** extends **Person** implements PersonLike, **EmployeeLike** { 
  private EmployeeLike employment = new
  Employment();
  public float getSalary() { return
  employment.getSalary(); }
  public java.util.Date getHireDate() { return   
  employment.getHireDate(); }
 }
}

As in the above example we have extended Person, so there is no need for the implementation, but for Employment to be extended we create a variable(employment) of type EmployeeLike. This variable will then be used to implement the Interface methods for the interface EmployeeLike.

Hope I am clear.

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