Multiple Inheritance in java

[Anonymous]

How do I achieve Multiple Inheritance.
Suppose I have class A and B. Both have a method called 'show' that has same type and signature in both the classes. Now I want to have a class X which has both the 'show' methods that are implemented in A and B.
Thanks in Advance.
Vicha

[maateen ashraf]

one procedure u can follow is to develop an inteface for class A or B
then
just implement ur class from both interfaces & provide the
method defination for both methods from both interfaces..
then u can call them accordingly..
hope it would help U....

[maateen ashraf]

just define Inner Class in Interface &
implement that Interface to ur class...
A utility inner class will be used by all classes, which implement the interface. It would be a way of cheating on no-multi-inheritance in Java and actually made the interface fully implemented, provided the programmer is tricky enough. Interesting stuff, isn't it?
I can even think of a situation in which it might be useful.
i Think that would help U....

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

maateen:
your reply is quite confusing atleast to me....
just implement ur class from both interfaces & provide the
interfaces are implemented not classes.......maybe the abv sentence should read implement your interfaces from classes
any comments .........
regds.
- satya

[Rob Acraman]

Let's put it another way.
You can't
Each class can only have a single method with a given name and argument signature.
So, you can either:
a) Have two 'show' functions, with an extra argument to indicate which variant of 'show' is being invoked, and/or
b) have a single incarnation of the method, and somehow try to decide what to do with it.
I know neither choice is what you were after, but I believe (ie. I could be wrong here) that these sorts of situations are extremely messy to deal with, and was part of the reason the Java originators decided not to implement multiple-inheritance in the first place.

[Grant Crofton]

While you're on the subject, if class SomeClass extends a class with show() (for example) and implements an interface with show(), which would be called when SomeClass.show() was invoked?

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

Grant:
Interesting qstn......
But praatically do you think this has any
use at all!
Anyways, if you implement the show() interface,
you are overwriting the show() method from the
parent. Hence, the show() method that you implemented
is the one which is executed.
On the contrary, you could do this also:
- donot implement the interface explecitly. It is
assumed that the interface is implemented since, the
parent class implements it. I din't think this would
work till I ran....was very interesting though....
chk this out.....

public interface showInterface 
{
   public void show();
   
}
public class showMethodClass 
{
   public void show() 
   {
      System.out.println("Print from show Method");
   }
   
}
public class showTest extends showMethodClass implements showInterface 
{
   public static void main (String[] args) 
   {
      System.out.println ("Print from main");
      System.out.println ("");
      
      showMethodClass s = new showMethodClass();
      
      s.show();
      
      System.out.println ("End from main");
      System.out.println ("");
      
   }
}

regds.
- satya

[Vipin Dube]

Simple answer to your question is that Java does not support Multiple inheritance in class hierarchy. Only Multiple interface inheritance is allowed. ok.