Re: Why only public methods on interfaces?
On 4/7/2011 10:01 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote:
On 2011-04-08 00:49:02 -0400, Patricia Shanahan said:
On 4/7/2011 5:09 PM, kramer31 wrote:
Could someone please explain to me the rational behind only allowing
public methods on interfaces? In my mind, protection and interfaces
are two independent if perhaps somewhat related concepts.
I think the original Java design underestimated the extreme usefulness
of Java interfaces. At the time one of their uses, representing the
public face of a package, was assumed to be the only possible use.
I've wanted to use intra-package interfaces, containing only default
access methods. There is an unpleasant choice between making something
that should be an interface into an abstract class or having public
methods that are supposed to only be used within one package.
As Stefan pointed out, interfaces themselves don't have to be public.
This is legal:
package com.example;
interface SomeInternalAbstraction {
public void flog(Horse horse);
}
-o
Yes, but then the implementing methods do have to be public, which is
undesirable if they should not be used outside the package.
Patricia
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