Java’s single inheritance limitation is usually not a problem in the normal course of development. In fact, the need to use multiple inheritance could be a sign of a bad design.

Java doesn’t support multiple inheritance through class extension, however. When viewing an inheritance hierarchy, you can easily detect multiple inheritance by the presence of a diamond pattern.

It seems that MI has fallen severely out of favor. Neither of the two "big" programming languages to come out in the last few years, Java or C#, make use of multiple implementation inheritance ...

Java's open inheritance model can feel like an open invitation to unintended extensions. The problem becomes especially poignant when a switch statement or a nesting of if statements assumes that a ...

Twenty-three years ago, in his Design Principles and Design Patterns article, Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin boiled down the Liskov substitution principle to the idea that "derived classes should be ...