Inheritance in Java: Basics, Advantages and Best Practices

One of the core ideas of object-oriented programming (OOP), inheritance enables a new class to be built upon an existing class. In Java, inheritance is accomplished via extending a class, which allows the new class to take on the parent class's methods and properties. In this post at OpenGenus, we'll examine the fundamentals of Java inheritance and look at its benefits for OOP.

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Syntax and Types of Inheritance

In Java, the syntax for inheriting a class is as follows:...