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In Java, what’s the difference between public, default, protected, and private?
Is there a difference between a variable with a private status and a variable with a protected status?
private int toto; protected int tata;
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3please do your homework before posting a question here... – nsgulliver Jan 30 '13 at 12:34
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2it's pretty easy to google that, really.[ask] – flup Jan 30 '13 at 12:34
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afcorse there is a diff. thats why we have two diff names private and protected. See in details here . http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/accesscontrol.html – Subir Kumar Sao Jan 30 '13 at 12:35
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A private attribute is only visible to the owning Class.
A protected attribute is also visible for all extending Classes, this is not the case for private attributes.
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