Re: Doubt regarding "Protected" access specifier across different
packages
sayantan.chowdhury@gmail.com wrote:
Could someone please explain to me the reasoning behind these errors.
As I understand, protected members are accesible to the subclasses in
a different package.
For use for their own construction only, not to create "third-party" objects.
Andrew Thompson wrote:
The protected members are accessible, though not
quite in the way you are trying..
22. // Subclass of Balance in a different package
package testing;
import MyPack.Balance;
BTW, OP, packages should be named with all lower-case letters, by convention.
public class TestBalance extends Balance{
TestBalance(String name, double balance) {
super(name, balance);
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
TestBalance mybalance = new TestBalance("Someone",1000);
mybalance.Show();
}
} /*class TestBalance*/
The code as above should compile cleanly. I am
going to avoid trying to explain further, I'll leave that
to the JLS/OO gurus.
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/names.html#6.6.2.2>
You can use a constructor for the object itself, inheriting the constructor,
but not for another object, where inheritance isn't involved.
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