9.1.5

Access to Interface Member Names

INTERFACES

InterfaceBody:

{

InterfaceMemberDeclarations

opt

 }

InterfaceMemberDeclarations:

InterfaceMemberDeclaration

InterfaceMemberDeclarations InterfaceMemberDeclaration

InterfaceMemberDeclaration:

ConstantDeclaration

AbstractMethodDeclaration

The scope of the name of a member declared in an interface type is the entire body

of the interface type declaration.

9.1.5   Access to Interface Member Names

All interface members are implicitly

public

. They are accessible outside the

package where the interface is declared if the interface is also declared

public

and the package containing the interface is accessible as described in  7.1.

9.2   Interface Members

The members of an interface are those members inherited from direct superinter 

faces and those members declared in the interface.

The interface inherits, from the interfaces it extends, all members of those

interfaces, except for fields that it hides and methods that it overrides.

9.3   Field (Constant) Declarations

The materials of action are variable,

but the use we make of them should be constant.

 Epictetus (circa 60 A.D.),

translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

ConstantDeclaration:

ConstantModifiers Type VariableDeclarator

ConstantModifiers: one of

public static final

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