Purpose in an interface

[Barry Brashear]

Can someone explain to me what exactly an interface is and when and why
you would use one?

Thanks.

[Ray Stojonic]

Try this

[Mani vannan]

hi,
The above link colud have given a clear issue on Interface.. Interface is a skeleton, that doesnt have any functionality, but takes shape as it is implemented.

[Ben Kittrell]

Wow, great question, hehe.

My advice would be to not try and understand it, unless you think you need it.

But to some it up, and interface allows you to change the implementation, without changing the interface. It also allows you plug different objects in the same hole.

Think of collections.

ArrayList and Vector but implement the List interface. The benifit is that you can have a method that takes a List as an argument, and you can pass an ArrayList or a Vector to it.

What does an Interface do? It ensures that the classes that implement it all have the same methods. This way the compiler can rest assured that the methods it calls on an object will be there.

Kind of hard to grok, but it's an awesome concept.