package scope : Java Glossary

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package scope: If you have a variable or method in your class that you don’t want clients of your class directly accessing, don’t give it a public, protected or private declaration. Due to an oversight in the design of Java, you can’t explicitly declare the default package accessibility. Other members of the package will be able to see it, but classes outside the package that inherit from yours, won’t. The protected accessibility attribute offers slightly more visibibily. A protected method is visible to inheriting classes, even not part of the same package. A package scope (default) method is not. That is the only difference between protected and package scope.
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