Though both Inheritance and Composition provides code reusablility, main difference between Composition and Inheritance in Java is that Composition allows reuse of code without extending it but for Inheritance you must extend the class for any reuse of code or functionality. Another difference which comes from this fact is that by using Composition you can reuse code for even final class which is not extensible but Inheritance cannot reuse code in such cases. Also by using Composition you can reuse code from many classes as they are declared as just a member variable, but with Inheritance you can reuse code form just one class because in Java you can only extend one class, because multiple Inheritance is not supported in Java. You can do this in C++ though because there one class can extend more than one class. BTW, You should always prefer Composition over Inheritance in Java, its not just me but even Joshua Bloch has suggested in his book

两个类之间的继承，其中一个类扩展了另一个类，建立了“IS A”关系。

另一端的组合包含类中另一个类的实例，建立了“Has A”关系。组合在java中是很有用的，因为它在技术上便于多重继承。

@Michael Rodrigues给出的答案不正确(我道歉;我不能直接评论)，这可能会导致一些混乱。

接口实现是一种继承形式…当你实现一个接口时，你不仅继承了所有的常量，你还将你的对象提交为接口指定的类型;这仍然是一种“是”的关系。如果汽车实现了Fillable，那么汽车“是-a”Fillable，并且可以在任何需要使用Fillable的代码中使用。

组合从根本上不同于继承。当您使用组合时，您(如其他回答所示)在两个对象之间建立了“has-a”关系，而不是使用继承时所建立的“is-a”关系。

所以，从其他问题中关于汽车的例子来看，如果我想说一辆汽车“有一个”油箱，我会使用如下的组合:

public class Car {

private GasTank myCarsGasTank;

}

希望这能消除任何误解。

Though both Inheritance and Composition provides code reusablility, main difference between Composition and Inheritance in Java is that Composition allows reuse of code without extending it but for Inheritance you must extend the class for any reuse of code or functionality. Another difference which comes from this fact is that by using Composition you can reuse code for even final class which is not extensible but Inheritance cannot reuse code in such cases. Also by using Composition you can reuse code from many classes as they are declared as just a member variable, but with Inheritance you can reuse code form just one class because in Java you can only extend one class, because multiple Inheritance is not supported in Java. You can do this in C++ though because there one class can extend more than one class. BTW, You should always prefer Composition over Inheritance in Java, its not just me but even Joshua Bloch has suggested in his book

不，两者都不一样。组合遵循“HAS-A”关系，继承遵循“IS-A”关系。组合的最佳例子是战略模式。

另一个例子，考虑一个汽车类，这将是一个很好的组合使用，一个汽车将“有”一个发动机，一个变速器，轮胎，座位，等等。它不会扩展任何这些类。