Private Class Declaration

[praveen2gupta]

class is having only Two access Modifiers

1. default (neet not to write)
2. Public

any other access modifiers are not allowed with classes.

[r035198x]

.....(does that include me)

You do that, you'd be banned before you even hit the Submit Reply button.

[r035198x]

class is having only Two access Modifiers

1. default (neet not to write)
2. Public

any other access modifiers are not allowed with classes.

Here we go again, unless it's inside another class

[CODE=java]package x;
class a {
private class b {
}
protected class c {
}
}[/CODE]

[AtulTiwari]

Here we go again, unless it's inside another class

[CODE=java]package x;
class a {
private class b {
}
protected class c {
}
}[/CODE]

This time You are all Right Dear r0

[JosAH]

Just to sum it all up; there are top level classes and nested classes. Top level
classes have either package scope or they are public.

Nested classes can be static or not which is not relevant for this discussion.
Nested classes can either be private, protected, package scope or public.
Anonymous classes (e.g. those small Listener or Observer classes) have to be
made visible by the surrounding class otherwise they don't exist according to the
outside world, whatever that may be.

It doesn't make sense for top level classes to be private because nothing else
can reach them. The same goes for protected top level classes, i.e. only the
class itself can reach it or a subclass thereof. But something else has to start
the whole thing going but it isn't allowed to even point its finger at it, nor at a
subclass thereof.

kind regards,

Jos