Access Modifiers

An access modifier limits the scope of visibility of a class, variable, or method.  A class will not compile with code including an identifier that is not visible to the class (whose scope omits the class).  The following table lists the access modifiers in increasing order of scope size:

Access Modifier	Applies to	Scope of Visibility
private	variable method	Its own class
omitted - default (package access)	variable method class	Classes in the package containing its own class
protected	variable method	Classes in the package containing its own class Subclasses of its own class contained in any package
public	variable method class	All classes in all packages

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