interface inheritance is a misleading term. Interface inheritance would be equivalent to the union of the method signatures of interfaces ( no typo here, an interface may implment multiple other interfaces)
Class inheritance - single hierarchy (in C#), and not only the methods are inherited, but also the data members. (interface in C# cannot define data members)
If a class has one abstract method ,the class has to be an abstract class.Methods can be implemented in abstract class.Whereas a interface is like a abstract class...the only difference being that the methods are never implemented in Interface.
An interface can only have abstract methods or constants in it. A class can have both that and everything else in Java.
When you inherit you typically override and specialise the virtual methods of the base class. With delegation, you embed a member object in your class and provide an interface (often a simplified interface) to that embedded object. Each embedded object takes care of itself, the container merely provides an interface and delegates the calls to the object itself.
In general, the differences are that interface has(1) no fields and(2) no implementation of methodsbut in UML interface may have features (fields), so the difference left is that interface in UML has no implemented methods while abstract class by definition is partially implemented class.
Multiple inheritance in C# In C#, the classes are only allowed to inherit from a single parent class, which is called single inheritance. But you can use interfaces or a combination of one class and interface(s), where interface(s) should be followed by class name in the signature.
Multiple Inheritance : we can inherit more than one class in the same class. Multi-Level Inheritance: where one class can inherit only one base class and the derived class can become base class of some other class.
yes of cause interface is use in java at the place of multiple inheritance .o as like multiple inheritance u can extends interface class to other. and another think is interface contain abstract method i.e method with no defination so u can use it without any error.
A (concrete) class defines all his methods and can have any kind of instance variable and is declared with the 'class' keyword. Unlike an interface that doesn't implements any of his methods and his variables must be static and final. An interface is defined with the 'interface' keyword.//This is a classpublic class MyClass{public String name;private int age;public void myMethod(){//do something}}//This is a interfaceinterface MyInterface {public static final String name;public static final int age;public void myMethod(); // This method is not implemented}An other difference is that a class can be inheritance by other class but a interface must be implemented using the keyword 'implements'.interface Runnable(){void run();}public class MyOtherClass implements Runnable{public void run(){// insert interesting code here}}
Package:- package is collection of related classes and interfaces which can be import in our program. There are different built in packages available in java.Package provide us a facility to create user define packages. Interfaces:- Interface is just like abstract class but the difference is that we can implements any no of interfaces in a single class .It is an alternative solution for multiple inheritance which is not available in java. Once we have implement the interface we can define methods of that interface in our class.
JAVA does not support multiple inheritance(i.e more than one class cant be inherited by other classes.) but multiple inheritance is a very important concept . For this reason interface is used which is a kind of class but he difference is that it contains only constant variables and abstract methods. abstract methods contains only the declaration not the codes.
Yes. The only difference between a struct and a class is that a struct's members and inheritance is public by default, while a class' members and inheritance are private by default. Structs can derive from classes and classes can derive from structs. As such, they are polymorphic.
The extends keyword is used to extend/inherit the features of another class whereas the implements keyword is used when a class is implementing the features of an interface. Both these keywords are used during Inheritance