If you introduced a new member (i.e., a method declaration) in an interface, all of your classes that implement the interface would have to be updated. With C# 8.0, you can now have default ...

There are numerous new classes, enums, methods, and interfaces being added to JDK 7 that may not get significant coverage in the blogs and articles on Java 7. In this post, I list and describe ...

Default interface methods are included in a new feature proposal for C# 8, which will allow developers to use the traits programming technique. Based on an existing language feature found in Java ...

I might eventually want to rewrite the method to return some other class, but my overly-specific return type will prevent me from doing that. A much better practice is to just specify an interface ...

Listing 3. Major classes and interfaces used in the framework. public interface SecurityDescriptor extends java.io.Serializable { // The getPermission methods return a constants defined in the // ...

Cross-language interface challenges. C++ and Java follow a traditional object-oriented programming (OOP) approach that uses a hierarchical class structure with inheritance for objects.

As support for Default Interface Methods gets closer to completion, potential issues were raised. While much has been accomplished, this is a complex feature and many of the specifics haven’t ...