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Interfaces, Inheritance, and Polymorphism

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An interface is a template for building a Java class. The components of an interface are static methods, constants, and abstract methods. An abstract method is a method header followed by a semicolon and is without a body. All abstract methods have public visibility. An abstract method specifies only its syntax, but not its semantics.

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Ogihara, M. (2018). Interfaces, Inheritance, and Polymorphism. In: Fundamentals of Java Programming. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89491-1_17

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