java继承和多态的异同,继承和多态之间的区别

I was studying about polymorphism. I couldn't determine the analogy in Java about these two features.

Let's say Animal class is a concrete superclass with Cat and Dog as its subclasses. I know that this is a case of inheritance. But isn't Cat and Dog classes, polymorphs of Animal class?

I am well aware of interfaces in Java. I couldn't understand why interfaces are used instead of concrete classes to explain polymorphism. It could be that the whole purpose of creating interface is to create polymorphs but I want to know why interfaces and not concrete classes?

解决方案

class Animal{

public void speak(){ System.out.println("Speaking something");}

}

class Person extends Animal{

@Override

public void speak(){ System.out.println("Hello..");}

}

Animal a = new Person();

a.speak();// Hello

The dictionary definition of polymorphism refers to a principle in

biology in which an organism or species can have many different forms

or stages. This principle can also be applied to object-oriented

programming and languages like the Java language. Subclasses of a

class can define their own unique behaviors and yet share some of the

same functionality of the parent class [..]

Why Interface ?

You know what needs to be done, but you want implementers to decide how to do it, You will let implementer implement the stuffs forcefully