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Interface Implementation
- Interfaces are contracts for what a class can do, but they say nothing about the way in which the class must do it.
- Interfaces can be implemented by any class, from any inheritance tree.
- An interface is like a
100-percent abstract class, and is implicitly abstract whether you type
the abstract modifier in the declaration or not.
- An interface can have only abstract methods, no concrete methods allowed.
- Interface methods are by default public and abstract—explicit declaration of these modifiers is optional.
- Interfaces can have constants, which are always implicitly public, static, and final.
- Interface constant declarations of public, static, and final are optional in any combination.
- A legal nonabstract implementing class has the following properties:
- It provides concrete implementations for the interface's methods.
- It must follow all legal override rules for the methods it implements.
- It must not declare any new checked exceptions for an implementation method.