Why we cant create protected methods in JAVA intefaces?
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/423032/interfaces-in-java-cannot-make-implemented-methods-protected-or-private">Interfaces in Java: cannot make implemented methods protected or private</a>  </p>
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<p>By default all the methods in inteface are public and abstract.
We can't define private method in inteface because its scope will be inside the interface itself. So private is meaningless resulting Compile time error.</p>

<p>Now the questions comes why cant we have protected?</p>
