Variables in Interfaces
As mentioned, variables can be declared in an interface, but they are implicitly public, static, and final. At first glance, you might think that there would be very limited use for such variables, but the opposite is true. Large programs typically make use of several constant values that describe such things as array size, various limits, special values, and the like. Since a large program is typically held in a number of separate source files, there needs to be a convenient way to make these constants available to each file. In Java, interface variables offer a solution.
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