9.4. Abstract Method Declarations

AbstractMethodDeclaration:    AbstractMethodModifiersopt TypeParametersopt Result                                        MethodDeclarator Throwsopt ;AbstractMethodModifiers:    AbstractMethodModifier    AbstractMethodModifiers AbstractMethodModifierAbstractMethodModifier: one of    Annotation public abstract

If an annotation a (§9.7) on a method declaration corresponds to an annotation type T (§9.6), and T has a (meta-)annotation m that corresponds to java.lang.annotation.Target, then m must have an element whose value is java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD, or a compile-time error occurs.

Every method declaration in the body of an interface is implicitly public (§6.6).

Every method declaration in the body ...

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