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Bug 488662

Summary: [1.9] Allow private methods in interfaces
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Jay Arthanareeswaran <jarthana>
Component: CoreAssignee: Manoj N Palat <manoj.palat>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: manoj.palat, stephan.herrmann
Version: 4.5.1   
Target Milestone: BETA J9   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
See Also: https://git.eclipse.org/r/76064
https://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git/commit/?id=23da3645ea7a3db4dea8838527d8795348f824b8
https://git.eclipse.org/r/82038
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Bug Blocks: 495954    

Description Jay Arthanareeswaran CLA 2016-02-29 00:00:03 EST
Refer coin project (JEP 213) - To enable non abstract methods in an interface to share code among them, it is proposed to allow private methods in interfaces.
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2016-06-27 23:32:41 EDT
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/76064
Comment 3 Jay Arthanareeswaran CLA 2016-09-27 14:19:00 EDT
Manoj, this is causing one failure in BETA_JAVA9:

MethodVerifyTest.testBug500673()

The test may have to be updated with the new error message. Can you please take care of it?
Comment 4 Eclipse Genie CLA 2016-09-28 01:10:22 EDT
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/82038
Comment 5 Eclipse Genie CLA 2016-09-28 01:10:24 EDT
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/82038