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# Configuring Inheritance for a Parent (Root) Descriptor

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Inheritance describes how a derived (child) class inherits the characteristics of its superclass (parent). When you designate a class as a parent, you can configure how TopLink handles the class's inheritance hierarchy.

Table: Descriptor Support for Inherited Attribute Mapping Configuration summarizes which descriptors support parent inheritance configuration.

Descriptor Support for Parent Inheritance Configuration

Descriptor | Using TopLink Workbench | Using Java
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Relational Descriptors |  |
Object-Relational Descriptors |  |
EIS Descriptors |  |
XML Descriptors |  |

For more information about configuring inheritance for a child (branch or leaf) class descriptor, see "Configuring Inheritance for a Child (Branch or Leaf) Class Descriptor".

For more information, see "Descriptors and Inheritance".