Is the following legal?

From: bluke (martybluke_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: 17 May 2004 10:10:54 -0700

I have the following:
package test1;

class Test {
  public final Color RED = new Color("red");

  protected static final class Color {
    private String id;
    private Color (String id) {
        this.id = id;
    }
    public String toString() {
        return id;
    }
  }
}

package test1;
 public class Test1 extends Test {
  }

package test2;
 public class Test2 extends Test1 {
   someMethod(RED);
}

I am getting an IllegalAccessError with this because Class Test is
package protected and Test2 is in a different package, so when Test2
tries to access RED I get an IllegalAccessError that tried to access
class test1.Test from class test2.Test2. The interesting thing about
this is that it compiles. This means that there is either a VM bug or
a compiler bug, because if it compiles I should not get an
IllegalAccessError. Is this actually legal?

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