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Should methods in a Java interface be declared with or without the public access modifier?
Technically it doesn’t matter, of course. A class method that implements an interface is always public. But what is a better convention?
Java itself is not consistent in this. See for instance Collection vs. Comparable, or Future vs. ScriptEngine.
The JLS makes this clear: