Access Specifiers

[maheshpwr]

class A
{
private int a;
}


class main
{
public static void main(String a[])
{
A m=new A();

m.a=10 /// can we write this statment????

}



// And what if a is public and protected?????????????????
}

[sunde887]

You can not directly access private variables. As for protected and public I will let you test that, switch a to protected then try modifying it directly in main, then compile and run it and see what happens. Try the same thing with public.

[DarrylBurke]

And/or read all about access and declaration modifiers:
Names

db

[veeraswamy]

since the data member is private it uses to access only within the methods of that class only,though the object of that class is created in another class.

[santoshpai1]

Private members of a class cannot be accessed by anybody.
Next level of abstraction is Protected. This means, all the classes derived from the current class can access thr variable as public.
The last level is Public. Anybody can access public members.

[maheshpwr]

thanx.
for all answers.
But Can u tell with an example?????

[maheshpwr]

thanx.
for all answers.
But Can u tell with an example?????

[JosAH]

thanx.
for all answers.
But Can u tell with an example?????

Your original example is a bit misleading because your main( ... ) method is defined in that class itself so it has all access rights to any member, even if it is private. For an experiment: define your main( ... ) method in another class and see for yourself.

kind regards,

Jos