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    <p>The difference between an interface and a regular class is that you cannot specify implementation in an interface. To be more clear, you can only specify methods, but not implement them. If you want to have multiple inheritance then you have to <code>implement</code> multiple interface. Java does not support multiple inheritance due to the below reasons.</p> <p>Also to note that <strong>Interfaces are about subtyping and polymorphism, whereas, inheriting methods is about code reuse.</strong></p> <p>From <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaqa/2002-07/02-qa-0719-multinheritance.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The reasons for omitting multiple inheritance from the Java language mostly stem from the "simple, object oriented, and familiar" goal. As a simple language, Java's creators wanted a language that most developers could grasp without extensive training. To that end, they worked to make the language as similar to C++ as possible (familiar) without carrying over C++'s unnecessary complexity (simple).</p> <p>In the designers' opinion, multiple inheritance causes more problems and confusion than it solves. So they cut multiple inheritance from the language (just as they cut operator overloading). The designers' extensive C++ experience taught them that multiple inheritance just wasn't worth the headache.</p> </blockquote> <p>You can find this interesting <a href="http://javapapers.com/core-java/why-multiple-inheritance-is-not-supported-in-java/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">article</a> on the same:-</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f3g8k.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3uBLd.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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