Many mistakenly assume that interfaces only sidestep Java’s failure to support multiple implementation inheritance. In reality, that workaround is only a side-effect of interface usage ...

In that scenario, inheritance is overkill ... To do that, you just have your class implement one of the two interfaces (IAbsoluteAdjustment or IPercentageAdjustment) and put some code in the interface ...

In literature, one encounters the terms subclassing and implementation inheritance, among others, to refer to the use of inheritance as a means for code reuse. The terms subtyping, interface ...

Neither of the two "big" programming languages to come out in the last few years, Java or C#, make use of multiple implementation inheritance, providing only interface inheritance. Delphi is of ...

Q: How does Java solve the famous diamond problem (caused by multiple inheritance)? That is, you can implement multiple interfaces, that in turn can be implemented by one class. I know that Java ...