Chapter 9. Interfaces
An interface declaration introduces a new reference type whose members are classes, interfaces, constants, and abstract methods. This type has no implementation, but otherwise unrelated classes can implement it by providing implementations for its abstract methods.
A nested interface is any interface whose declaration occurs within the body of another class or interface.
A top level interface is an interface that is not a nested interface.
We distinguish between two kinds of interfaces - normal interfaces and annotation types.
This chapter discusses the common semantics of all interfaces - normal interfaces, both top level (§7.6) and nested (§8.5, §9.5), and annotation types (§9.6). Details that are specific to particular ...
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