public, private, protected and package
or default are four access modifier available in Java. These access
modifier provides Java programmer to control accessibility or visibility of
class, method or any field of class. Good understanding of public, private or
protected modifier is required in order to implement proper encapsulation
in Java and create a Java program which is easier to maintain. In this Java
tutorial we will see what is public, private, protected and default modifiers
are, which modifier can be used with top
level class and nested
class and what are difference
between public, private, protected and default modifier in Java. We In next
section we will discuss all four access modifier in decreasing order of
accessibility, starting from public which is most accessible and going down to
private which is least accessible.
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