Re: Hmmm....I apparently have the wrong idea about extending classes

public members are accessible from any method.
private members only from methods in the same class.
protected members are accessible from methods in extending classes,
subclasses (in addition to methods in the class itself)
package members, when there's no specifier written, are accessible from
methods in classes that are in the same package.

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Paul Hamaker, SEMM
http://javalessons.com

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