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[vijay12]

vijay12  

 significance of public, private and protected

hi...friends, can someone State the significance of public, private, protected, default modifiers both singly and in combination and state the effect of package relationships on declared items qualified by these modifiers ?? thank you !!!

[polas]

polas  

 Re: significance of public, private and protected

Briefly:

public - can be "seen" by any class in any package
private - can only be "seen" by the class which contains it
protected - can only be "seen" by sub (or super) classes or the class containing it. (and subclasses in other packages)

By default, its sort of public, but only visible in that specific package