5.1. Inheritance
Inheritance allows a class to extend and reuse behavior defined in its ancestor class (superclass). Java and C# support only single class inheritance, in which a given class can inherit from only one other class. This is in contrast to C++, which allows a class to inherit behavior from multiple classes.
Inheritance creates an is-a relationship between the subclass and the superclass; in other words, a subclass is a type of the superclass. Because of the single class inheritance in Java and C#, you must be careful in choosing which class to inherit your class from. For example, if you have a custom maplike data structure, should you inherit from java.util.HashMap? Doing so would instantly make your data structure a java.util.HashMap ...
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