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Message:

Interfaces Can Have Same Methods

Posted by Bill Venners on May 25, 2000 at 6:00 AM

> I have a question:

> If you have 2 interfaces below:

> public interface A
> {
> public void sayHello();
> public void sayWorld();
> }

> public interface B
> {
> public void sayHello();
> public void sayYahoo();
> }

> Let a class C implement interfaces A , B:

> public class C implements A,B
> {
> public void sayHello(){ System.out.println("Hello"); //interface does this implementation belongs to ???
> //Will it even compile???

> public void sayWorld(){ System.out.println("World");
> public void sayYahoo(){ System.out.println("Yahoo");
> }

The sayHello() implementation belongs to both interfaces. In
other words, if you cast a reference to a class C object to
either A or B, you can invoke sayHello().

bv



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