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Java Interface

An interface in programming serves as a contract that defines method declarations without implementations, requiring implementing classes to provide those implementations. Interfaces can have nested interfaces with various access modifiers, and they allow for default methods that can be inherited by implementing classes. Additionally, interfaces cannot implement other interfaces, and static methods and variables in interfaces are implicitly public, static, and final, but not inherited by implementing classes.

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Java Interface

An interface in programming serves as a contract that defines method declarations without implementations, requiring implementing classes to provide those implementations. Interfaces can have nested interfaces with various access modifiers, and they allow for default methods that can be inherited by implementing classes. Additionally, interfaces cannot implement other interfaces, and static methods and variables in interfaces are implicitly public, static, and final, but not inherited by implementing classes.

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 An interface in programming (especially in Java, C#, etc.

) is like a contract or a
blueprint.
 It only defines what methods or properties a class should have, but not how they
work.
 It has method declarations, not method bodies.
 A class that "implements" the interface must provide the body (implementation) for
all those methods.

 Nested interfaces (interfaces declared inside a class or another interface) can be:
o public
o protected
o private
o default (package-private)
 Methods are Implicitly public.
 They must be public, as interface methods cannot have less visibility than the
interface itself an implementation).
 default methods allow classes to inherit a method implementation
 When an interface extends another, it inherits all the abstract methods of the parent
interface, and any class implementing the child interface must provide an
implementation for those methods.

 An interface cannot implement another interface. Only a class can implement an


interface.
 An abstract class that implements an interface can leave the method
implementations to its subclasses. It doesn’t need to implement all methods itself.
 If the interface has a default method (added in Java 8), the class doesn't have to
implement that method. The class can choose to use the default implementation
provided by the interface.
 Static variables in interfaces are implicitly public, static, and final
 Static methods in an interface are implicitly public.
 They are not inherited by classes that implement the interface. A class cannot
override static methods from an interface.
 Calling static method directly from the interface

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