Access Controls and access modifiers

[Parag Patankar]

Hi,

Referring book SCJP 6 by K&B, on page 12 it has mentioned that "4 access controls but only 3 access modifiers, the 4th control level called default or package access. "

So my understanding is

1. Access control is coderanch, private, protected, "default"
2. Access modifiers coderanch, private, protected
3. Non-access modifiers strictfp, final and abstract

Am I correct ?

thanks & regards
parag

[Rajeev Trikha]

Depends on which level you are using these modifiers. Methods can be synchronized, native, static. The outer classes can only be public or default. The top-level inner classes can be static.

[Tim McGuire]

Parag Patankar wrote:
Referring book SCJP 6 by K&B, on page 12 it has mentioned that "4 access controls but only 3 access modifiers, the 4th control level called default or package access. "

So my understanding is

1. Access control is coderanch, private, protected, "default"
2. Access modifiers coderanch, private, protected
3. Non-access modifiers strictfp, final and abstract

Am I correct ?

If you are talking about methods or inner classes, You are correct for 1 and 2

for methods, the non-access modifiers are
strictfp
final
static
abstract
native
synchronized

Check out this chart of all the modifiers and where they can be used:
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/javamodifiers.php

[Parag Patankar]

Thanks Rajeev and Tim.

Tim, chart is really giving very clear picture.

regards
parag