4 Type of Java Access Modifiers Explained with Examples - MPS

This tutorial describes Java access modifiers in detail. They control the visibility for Java classes and their members (functions and data). They are public, private, and protected.

 

However, Java also implements a default case when no modifier is present. It means that a class, its functions, fields are only accessible by other classes in the same module.

 

By the way, there are majorly four types of access modifiers in Java. Let’s discuss each of them in detail and with the help of examples.

Java Access Modifiers Explained with Examples

The following are the points that we’ll discuss today.

 

Modifiers introduction

Java provides a wide variety of mechanisms to control the visibility of objects of a class or variable. They are known as modifiers in programming terminology.

 

They may belong to one of the following categories:

 

Access modifiers

Non-Access modifiers

 

Moreover, Java supports four primary access modifiers. While Non-access specifiers are of 7 types in Java. You can use them to specify the level of access to classes, methods, constructors, or variables.

 

The four primary access specifiers in Java are:

 

Default access modifier,

Private access modifier,

Public access modifier,

Protected access modifier,

 

As per the Java inheritance concept:

 

The public methods of a superclass must also have the same level in the subclass too.

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