From a86f6d3676ab655b7e7c4f82009c0c20726bd144 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Hoeller <jhoeller@pivotal.io>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:42:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ApplicationEventPublisher as functional interface

Issue: SPR-14699
---
 .../springframework/context/ApplicationEventPublisher.java | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/ApplicationEventPublisher.java b/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/ApplicationEventPublisher.java
index d21653b222..43b8dd40bc 100644
--- a/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/ApplicationEventPublisher.java
+++ b/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/ApplicationEventPublisher.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2015 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2016 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ package org.springframework.context;
  * @see org.springframework.context.ApplicationEvent
  * @see org.springframework.context.event.EventPublicationInterceptor
  */
+@FunctionalInterface
 public interface ApplicationEventPublisher {
 
 	/**
@@ -37,7 +38,9 @@ public interface ApplicationEventPublisher {
 	 * @param event the event to publish
 	 * @see org.springframework.web.context.support.RequestHandledEvent
 	 */
-	void publishEvent(ApplicationEvent event);
+	default void publishEvent(ApplicationEvent event) {
+		publishEvent((Object) event);
+	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Notify all <strong>matching</strong> listeners registered with this