Java Inheritance

[Adarsh Raj]

if every class in java automatically extends the base class Object, how is it possible to write such as

public class SomeClass extends AnotherClass{
}
    

concerning the fact that, java allows at a time only one class to be extended.

Adz

[pawan chopra]

Adarsh Raj wrote:if every class in java automatically extends the base class Object, how is it possible to write such as

public class SomeClass extends AnotherClass{
}
    

concerning the fact that, java allows at a time only one class to be extended.

Adz

Its like SomeClass extends AnotherClass and AnotherClass extends Object class. So at a time one class is extending single class. If you do not extend any class compiler inherits Object class by default.

[Muhammad Khojaye]

pawan is right. SomeClass has a super type of Object but not as the direct super class.

[nick kaushik]

compiler first checks whether you have inherited a class or not...if you haven't then it puts the extend statement of the base class itself....

[Adarsh Raj]

Thanks to everyone who replied. I got the answer i was looking for.

Adz

[Campbell Ritchie]

Adarsh Raj wrote:Thanks to everyone who replied. I got the answer i was looking for.

Adz

I think you got the right answer too!

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