Practical side of the ability to define a class within an interface in Java?

Question

What would be the practical side of the ability to define a class within an interface in Java:

interface IFoo
{
    class Bar
    {
        void foobar (         


        

Answer 1

One use (for better or worse) would be as a workaround for the fact that Java doesn't support static methods in interfaces.

interface Foo {
    int[] getData();

    class _ {
        static int sum(Foo foo) {
            int sum = 0;
            for(int i: foo.getData()) {
                sum += i;
            }
            return sum;
        }
    }
}

Then you'd call it with:

int sum = Foo._.sum(myFoo);