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public |
Optional: 0 or 1. If public, an interface name is universally visible for use as a type. Otherwise, the interface name is only visible within this package. Note that the file in which a public interface InterfaceName is defined must have the name InterfaceName.java |
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interface InterfaceName |
Exactly 1. This name is a Java type that can be used anywhere it is visible. If the class is defined in a package other than the default, its proper name is packageName.InterfaceName, though this may be abbreviated using import statements. |
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extends OtherInterfaceName |
Optional: 0 or 1. If present, this interface extends the specification provided by OtherInterfaceName. Specifically, all methods and (static final) fields specified by InterfaceName are required for any instance implementing interface InterfaceName. |
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{ body } |
Exactly 1, but body may be empty. If not empty, body consists only of static final field declarations and nonstatic abstract method (signature) declarations. |
© 1999 Lynn Andrea Stein
This chapter is excerpted from a draft ofIntroduction to Interactive Programming In Java, a forthcoming textbook from Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. It is a part of the course materials developed as a part of Lynn Andrea Stein's Rethinking CS101 project at the MIT AI Lab and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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