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Re: Java interface natural history was RE: "static" declaration

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Subject: Re: Java interface natural history was RE: "static" declaration
From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 19:53:07 -0700
In-reply-to: Message from Ken Anderson <kanderson@bbn.com> of "Wed, 07 Aug 2002 13:09:36 EDT." <5.0.2.1.2.20020807105254.02031b90@zima.bbn.com>
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"KA" == Ken Anderson <kanderson@bbn.com> writes:

  KA> Your message made me curious about how interfaces are actually
  KA> used in Java. Here's what i found by scanning JDK1.4's rt.jar:
  KA> 8128 classes
  KA>   965 interfaces
  KA> 5559 classes that implement an interface
  KA>   456 Throwables

I suspect that a lot of the 5559 classes that implement one or more
interfaces implement only marker interfaces like Cloneable, Remote,
Serializable, etc.

--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
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Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014

References:
- Java interface natural history was RE: "static" declaration
  - From: Ken Anderson <kanderson@bbn.com>

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