Leaving blank methods?

Is leaving methods blank considered bad practice? For example in a preset Java interface, there may be a method 'close()' which you won't really need to use for the rest of the program, would it be okay to code it as:

public void close()
{
}

Thanks.

How do you think the Adapter classes are implemented?

Although it is fine to leave a method blank ,it may be useful if you declare the method inside an interface and implement that interface in your class as blank method.
This way it would be clear that the method was meant to be implemented as a blank method rather than it being left blank by mistake .

You might want to put a comment in the blank method to say that it is meant to be blank.
In somecases it might be useful to have the method throw an unimplemented exception if it is called accidentally.

Gavin Tranter wrote:You might want to put a comment in the blank method to say that it is meant to be blank.
In somecases it might be useful to have the method throw an unimplemented exception if it is called accidentally.

And the "unimplemented" exception is called java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

Wow awesome, thank you all for your input

Thanks Rob