February 2014
Beginner
1248 pages
62h 25m
English
Functional interfaces must contain only one abstract method, but may also contain default methods and static methods that are fully implemented in the interface declarations. For example, the Function interface—which is used extensively in functional programming—has methods apply (abstract), compose (default), andThen (default) and identity (static).
When a class implements an interface with default methods and does not override them, the class inherits the default methods’ implementations. An interface’s designer can now evolve an interface by adding new default and static methods without breaking existing code that implements the interface. For example, interface Comparator
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