Interface methods

[amit sanghai]

Hi everybody,

State true or false :
All methods of an interface are implicitly public, static, and final.

I think that it is false because if interface methods are final then they cannot be overriden. Also, it is not necessary for all the methods to be static.

[Sam Zheng]

It is false.
All interface methods are implicitly public and abstract
(but not static!), while member variables in interface
are implicitly public static and final. In fact in the
exam I took last month, there was actually one question
asking these fine points.

[Samrat Pujara]

Methods of an Interface can't be final otherwise the class
which extends the Interface won't be able to use the method
and the purpose of Interface would be defeated.
Therefore , methods are public so that they are available everywhere
These methods are also abstract.

[Arvind Kini]

yeah thats right
method of an interface cannot be final . I had come across this question in one of javeds chapter wise mock exams. there were many more of such wrong answers there . but then those were obvious wrong ones!!
regards
arvind