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In this episode, Donn talks about Item #20 in the Effective Java book (third series) by Joshua Bloch. He discusses why you should think about using interfaces over abstract classes.

In this episode, Donn talks about Item #20 in the Effective Java book (third series) by Joshua Bloch. He discusses why you should think about using interfaces over abstract classes, how they can add mixin like behavior to retrofit existing classes with new behavior, default methods, skeleton implementations and more. 

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Donn Felker

@donnfelker

Kaushik Gopal

@kaushikgopal

Fragmented · April 1, 2019

157: Effective Java Item# 20 - Prefer interfaces to abstract classes

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