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Terrible!
Posted by Matt Gerrans on November 14, 2001 at 1:42 PM
Don't do this! Trying to trick the compiler will only create headaches for you and others. It will also fail when a full rebuild is done. How are you getting a reference to an object of that class upon which to call the method, anyway? You didn't say it was a static method... If you need to access a method of a class which isn't public, here are some sensible ways that will not confuse the maintainers of the code:
- Make the class public. (you ruled this out, for some unknown reason).
- Make the class implement an interface that includes that method, then you can refer to the object with a reference of that interface type and call the method.
- Make the class extend a public abstract class that defines the method, much the same as the interface (using the interface would be better, though).
- Move the method to a class that is public in that package.
- Make a proxy method from a public class in the same package, so that it calls the innaccessible method for you.
- mfg
> u can use one way to cheat it.
> first make the class(called A) in other package public,then compile ur program and run it,everything is ok.
> then modify A,remove the public symbol,recompile it.now everything is ok.u still can run the program.
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