Thread: Why is it not possible to define a static method in a Java interface?

Because all subclasses would be required to implement the static method, they would all be fine when calling it. So, why isn't this a possibility? When the static members' initial values are not initialized, the default value is automatically initialized to the specific static member in Java.

public interface IXMLizable<T>
{
  static T newInstanceFromXML(Element e);
  Element toXMLElement();
}

I came across this article https://www.scaler.com/topics/java/s...ethod-in-java/ and I'm curious to know that because we can inherit from multiple interfaces, if two interfaces contained the same static method signature and then a class implemented them both and called that method, then things could become complicated in a way that the Java language creators intended to avoid by disallowing multiple class inheritance in the first place.
Is there any other way to ensure this besides adding a comment to the interface?

What did you have in mind to create with this multiple inheritance? Of which you which you wanted to implement an interface? Which is to achieve security. For those reasons. Whatever that is. Interfaces are public. What would this class do? All in one. Abstract.