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Interfaces should not have side-effects and that even applies to static intializers. They would have highly JVM-implementation dependent behavior. Look at the following code

public class InterfaceSideEffects {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("InterfaceSideEffects.main()");
    Impl i=new Impl();
    System.out.println("Impl initialized");
    i.bla();
    System.out.println("Impl instance method invoked");
    Foo f=new Impl();
    System.out.println("Impl initialized and assigned to Foo");
    f.bla();
    System.out.println("Foo interface method invoked");
  }
}
interface Foo {
  int dummy=Bar.haveSideEffect();
  void bla();
}
class Bar {
  static int haveSideEffect() {
    System.out.println("interface Foo initialized");
    return 0;
  }
}
class Impl implements Foo {
  public void bla() {
  }
}

What do you think, when will interface Foo initialized be printed? Try to guess and run code afterwards. The answer might surprise you.

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