Static methods on interfaces

[Brian Goetz]

This is the plan of record.  If you're looking for some sort of 
yacht-collateralized guarantee, though, we don't offer those.

More strongly, the only way to invoke a static method on an interface is:

    DeclaringInterfaceName.methodName(args)

Not subinterfaces, not subclasses, not instances.

On 12/17/2012 12:10 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> Can we (JSR-310 and more generally) rely on static methods in
> interfaces being in JDK8? It affects a design decision currently in
> progress ;-)
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2012-December/006969.html
>
> Also, can we assume that static methods are in not inherited by
> implementors (unlike static constants on interfaces)?
>
> Stephen
>