What is the reason why an interface method can not be static nor sychronized?

[Zhao]

Reasons?

thanks

Zhao

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

Reasons?

Synchronization is an implementation detail and thus has no place in
an interface definition. Static methods are bound at compile time
(not sure why, but there are probably good reasons) and thus make
no sense in an interface.

 

[Daniel Schneller]

Hello!

Interfaces are generally used to pass around references to object
instances without having to know their actual type (class).
Static methods belong to the class itself, not to a particular object
instantiated from it, so there is no reason to have this in an interface.

The need for synchronisation depends on the particular implementation of
a method. Maybe they made it illegal in order to not limit the
creativity of the implementors.

Daniel

 

[Roedy Green]

Reasons?

see http://mindprod.com/homework.html
http://mindprod.com/interface.html

 

[Phil...]

homework?
doit yourself

 

[Joona I Palaste]

On 15 Oct 2003 23:55:29 -0700, (e-mail address removed) (Zhao) wrote or
quoted :

see http://mindprod.com/homework.html

The URL /homework.html was not found on this server.

http://mindprod.com/interface.html

The URL /interface.html was not found on this server.

 

[Roedy Green]

The URL /homework.html was not found on this server.


The URL /interface.html was not found on this server.

I make these errors often. If a URL does not work either add or remove
the jgloss.

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/homework.html

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