[From nobody Fri Aug  6 17:05:26 2004
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:53:35 -0800
From: Jason Hunter <jhunter@collab.net>
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Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] JDOM interfaces
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> To achieve this cleanly, we would like to see
> interfaces defined for all the JDOM objects. 

You can treat Element as an interface, and ignore that it happens to
have a default implementation.  Using a concrete class instead of an
interface provides usability improvements, and allows us to make
guarantees of certain things by implementing some methods as final.

Look at it this way: there's a reason java.lang.Object isn't an
interface.  :-)

-jh-
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