@Override and default methods

[Paul Benedict]

I saw this email come through Apache and would like your opinions:

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Hi,

during the vote for collections 4.0 we have discovered a problem wrt the
MultiMap interface in general and specifically the MultiKeyMap.

Java 8 introduces a new default method in the Map interface:

 boolean remove(Object key, Object value)

This clashes with the method in MultiMap:

 V remove(K key, V value)

and the remove methods for multiple keys in MultiKeyMap:

 V remove(K key1, K key2)

Just changing the return type does not solve the problem, as one can not
re-define a method in an interface without using the @Override
annotation, but this would only work when compiling with JDK 8 and fail
for other JDKs.
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What is the correct course in such a situation?

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Cheers,
Paul