Comments on: Marker interface in java

By: Vamshi

Vamshi — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:48:30 +0000

Hi all. Recently I am hearing a news that, Runnable, Comparable interfaces are also the marker interfaces. And they are saying that interfaces which have methods which give different behavior are marker interfaces. Please clear my confusion with examples if u can

By: Exceptions

Exceptions — Tue, 24 May 2011 04:30:56 +0000

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By: arun mehta

arun mehta — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:50:58 +0000

# salvin francisNo Gravatar – 09/4/2009 at 6:23 am

Hi,
What is the difference between an empty interface and an empty abstract class ?

By: arun mehta

arun mehta — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:49:57 +0000

Now you should use annotations. Interfaces serve a different purpose, and nowadays should not be without methods. You can check implemented annotations at runtime too,

By: arun mehta

arun mehta — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:48:27 +0000

Yes; and you can actually do the same with annotations as well now (to emulate interfaces). Not sure what the advantageous would be though…

By: Gobi

Gobi — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:47:30 +0000

Hi,
Appreciate your efforts in putting this. It would be better to understand if you would have given some more example .

Just my thoughts…

By: salvin francis

salvin francis — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:23:41 +0000

Hi,
What is the difference between an empty interface and an empty abstract class ?

(Other than multiple inheritance)

By: Garidan

Garidan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:25:33 +0000

Now you should use annotations. Interfaces serve a different purpose, and nowadays should not be without methods. You can check implemented annotations at runtime too, see for example http://bill.burkecentral.com/2008/01/14/scanning-java-annotations-at-runtime/

By: Java training

Java training — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:07:01 +0000

Yes; and you can actually do the same with annotations as well now (to emulate interfaces). Not sure what the advantageous would be though…

Example (in Dutch though):

http://www.jtraining.com/blogs/annotations-nu-ook-voor-jou.html

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PimpThisBlog.com — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:04:49 +0000

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