Is it acceptable for an interface definition to contain references to other interfaces?

I was looking at the definition of Spring's PlatformTransactionManager which contains references to TransactionStatus and TransactionDefinition, two other interfaces.

Is this 开发者_如何学Cacceptable in general, an interface's definition containing references to other interfaces? When is it useful?

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Yes it's acceptable. Why wouldn't it be ?

It's even better to have references to Interfaces instead of concrete classes for what it worth.

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It's absolutely acceptable. Sometimes types need to refer to other types - and if those types in turn represent potentially complex services, it's useful to be able to abstract out a general type, often in the form of an interface.

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Its possible... Thats one of the key aspects in implementing multiple inheritence

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Yes. It is possible. I can not think of any scenario where it may create any problems.