Questions on for Kathy Sierr or Bert Bates

[ruby ruby]

I am preparing for the SCJP exam. I am reading the bookd by Dathy S. and Bert B. I have a question about the answer for chapter 2 selftest 5.
FYI, here is the question:
How many of the following are legal method declarations?
1 - protedcted abstract void m1();
2 - static final void m1(){}
3 - transient private native void m1(){}
4 - synchronized public final void m1() {}
5 - private native void m1();
6 - static final synchronized protected void m1() {}
The answer said only 3 is illegal. I do hava a question about 1: If a method is abstract, the class that has it has to be abstract. If the class is abstract, then the method it contains has to be public. So I think statement 1 is illegal also.
Am I right? Or am I missing something?
Thanks

[David Hadiprijanto]

If the class is abstract, then the method it contains has to be public.

This is not correct. In an abstract class you can have private, protected, default, or public methods. Although, you can not have a private abstract method, because an abstract method has to be overridden, and a private method is not inherited.
However, in interface, all methods must be and are implicitly public and abstract, so it is illegal to declare an abstract protected method in interface. May be you were thinking of interface instead of abstract class?
Hope this helps.

abstract class A {
  // These are OKs
  private void m1() {}
  abstract protected void  m2();
  abstract void m3();
  abstract public void m4();
  // This is not OK
  //abstract private void m5();
}
interface B {
  // This is not OK
  //abstract protected m1();
  void m2(); // This is actually a public abstract void m2();
}
class C implements B {
  //void m2() {} // compiler error here, because void m2() should be a public
}

[ruby ruby]

Thanks for the response. You are absolute right.