Access modifiers

• Suppose d is an instance of Employee, where class Employee is declared as:

public class Employee

{<access modifier> int x;

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}

• If the <access modifier> is:

  • public, then field d.x can be referenced anywhere that d can be referenced.
  • private, then field d.x can be referenced anywhere within class Employee that d can be referenced
  • protected, then field d.x can be referenced anywhere within the package in which Employee is declared (packages are discussed later).

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