Interface gives more polymorphism?

[santhosh.R gowda]

Dear all ,

Interface gives more polymorphism rather than extending a single class ?

I came to know about that in interface all methods are public (must) so there is no ristriction in interface for methods like simple class where we apply other access specifiers(Private,Protected,Default) so interface gives us more polymorphism than single inherited class....

Please rectify the above statement and let me know

[Vijitha Kumara]

Interfaces by definition cannot have any method implementations but the method signature and are implicitly public.

santhosh.R gowda wrote:so interface gives us more polymorphism than single inherited class....

Polymorphism is the ability to have the super type reference refer to any sub type of that. And using interfaces makes it more flexible that you are able to replace any implementation of the interface at runtime so the runtime system take care of the actual object being refered. You may invoke any method defined in the interface without knowing the actual implementation.