Public defender methods and static inner classes in interfaces?

[Mark Thornton]

  On 08/09/2010 13:59, Jim Mayer wrote:
> One problem with the suggestion below (that 'private' be allowed on classes
> inside interfaces) is that it won't play nicely with unit testing frameworks
> such as JUnit.  JUnit conventions rely fairly heavily on 'package'
> protection, and a 'private' class inside an interface would be difficult to
> test.

Java already allows private classes within classes and also anonymous 
classes within interfaces. The same test issues arise in these cases.

Regards,
Mark Thornton