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In the Spring web app I am working on, there is a service layer that relates to the rest of the web app structure like this:
com/
myapp/
controller/
model/
service/
This service layer is made up of interface and implementation classes.
Why is it so important to have interfaces for all of these classes?
Why not just Class files?
The Interfaces allow you to pass different implementations of those interfaces without changing the underlying code.
For example, if a model only wanted HashMap and you had a TreeMap, you’d be in trouble. But if the model accepted Map (ok, pretend it’s an Interface) then it would work with either HashMap or TreeMap.