Extension vs defender methods

[David Holmes]

On 14/11/2011 12:40 PM, Paul Benedict wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com
> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     What is being added is a way to provide a default implementation for a
>     method declared in an interface.
>
> David, wouldn't such default methods also be available in abstract
> classes? The mechanism should be the same, I think.

Not sure what you are saying. Any class that implements the interface 
will benefit from the default implementation if it doesn't provide its 
own (and assuming it doesn't re-abstract the method in question - not 
sure if that is in the current spec).

David