Multiple Inheritance in Java is nothing but one class extending more than one class. Previous versions of Java(until JDk 7) doesn’t support Multiple Inheritance because it causes a famous problem called “Diamond Problem“ and hence indirectly Multiple Inheritance in Java is achieved using Interfaces. After the introduction of Default Methods in Java 8, even the interfaces can also have the method bodies. In this tutorial let’s see how the Diamond Problem is prevented in Java 8. [Read more…]
Java 8 Default Methods in Interface
Java Interface always can contain the method declaration and cannot contain method implementation (method body), “there is no possible way of adding method implementation to a Java Interface” has become a myth now after the introduction of Default Method in Java 8. Default Method or Defender methods is a new feature which lets the developer add a new method to an existing interface and provides the implementation for it without breaking existing implementation of the interface. For defining method body, we simply need to add Java default keyword while declaring the method. Let’s look into the below example and understand how Default Methods works. [Read more…]
