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Some Reasons Why Interfaces Are Very Cool

1. They encourage smart application design. Say that you have an application like an e-commerce site. You have to access a database a lot for different reasons. On one occasion, you need to retrieve products and display the catalog; another time, you need to store customer information. Now, these operations aren't related much in terms of the domain. But they do the same thing: interact with the database. You might create an interface called DataAccessor that defines all of the operations that can be done with the database: select, insert, update, delete, and so forth. Then, you have one standard way that all of the programmers on your project can write to. All of your database access contracts, even if ...