Modifiers and Overloading

[Jordan Drew]

Do modifiers have anything to do with whether one method is considered to overload another?
For example, would the following 3 methods all be considered overloaded methods if they were all in the same class?
public int someMethod(int a, String b) {}
private int someMethod(String a, boolean b, int c) {}
protected int someMethod(Object x) {}
Is this an example of overloading or do the methods have to have the same modifier?
Thanks in advance.

[Ragu Sivaraman]

Originally posted by Jordan Drew:
Do modifiers have anything to do with whether one method is considered to overload another?
For example, would the following 3 methods all be considered overloaded methods if they were all in the same class?
public int someMethod(int a, String b) {}
private int someMethod(String a, boolean b, int c) {}
protected int someMethod(Object x) {}
Is this an example of overloading or do the methods have to have the same modifier?
Thanks in advance.

Overloading.. NOPE
Overloading is very old concept.
OO paradigm modifiers will not make a differene
Overloading looks for different signatures thats all
Overriding. Its a whole different ball game

[Bindesh Vijayan]

Jordan be clear with one point that overloading has nothing to do with access modifiers(public ,protected,private,default) or return types.All worth is the arguments and the sequence of the same.
THANKS.