Access Modifiers
Explore the different Java access modifiers including private, public, protected, and default. Understand how these modifiers control access to class data and methods, support encapsulation, and affect inheritance and package visibility.
In Java, we can impose access restrictions on different data members and member functions. The restrictions are specified through access modifiers. Access modifiers are tags we can associate with each member to define which parts of the program can access it directly.
There are three types of access modifiers. Let’s take a look at them one by one.
Private
A private member cannot be accessed directly from outside ...