Why there was a need to use default methods in Interface

[Brian Goetz]

Interface evolution.

Interfaces like Collection cannot be added to, because there are already 
implementations of Collection out there, so if we added a method to 
Collection, it would render all existing implementations not 
compileable.  This means that interfaces like Collection could not be 
evolved once published.

Default methods provide a path to evolving interfaces over time, as it 
lets you compatibly add to an interface as long as the functionality you 
want can be expressed in terms of existing interface methods.


On 3/31/2013 2:48 PM, Mrityunjay Sharma wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a question regarding providing the support for adding default method
> in interface.
> When we are adding an implementation  in interface, compiler can itself
> decide whether its an default implementation or not. As far as i know we
> cannot use default methods for any class, instead we can only use it in
> interfaces. Then why there was a need to use default methods.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Mrityunjay
>