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> If/when you have multiple concrete objects which share the same interface, it's trivial there to switch references from the concrete type to that of the Inter
by VladRussian 15y ago
> If/when you have multiple concrete objects which share the same interface, it's trivial there to switch references from the concrete type to that of the Interface
you're a lucky person that it has been trivial for you, your teammates and all the known and unknown clients of your code and components. I can only envy your experience.
- timclark 15y agoLots of Java development is carried out for internal business applications and like it or not they would typically be integrated with third parties using something like SOAP or a shared database. So in this type of application the choice of a concrete class over an interface probably has little impact on the known or unknown clients of your code. However, as you point out, if you are presenting a Java API to your known and unknown clients you had better think carefully about which abstractions you are going to expose and interfaces are probably going to be very helpful.