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I'm glad you mentioned the use of interfaces as repositories of constants. While it may not be recommended in the strict sense of why interfaces exist, I've used this technique for years on large projects as a good way of organizing and reusing constants.

So you can use wildcards in the import? Can you use static import for static classes?

Will the other 10 lessons be on SYS-CON.TV?

Is it Yakov Fain who is speaking at the moment? A live Java lesson - cool!

I used this lesson in conjunction with the last one, lesson ten on eclipse IDE and it really helped me


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