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public access modifier in Java
A class, method, constructor, interface, etc. declared public can be accessed from any other class. Therefore, fields, methods, blocks declared inside a public class can be accessed from any class belonging to the Java Universe.
However, if the public class we are trying to access is in a different package, then the public class still needs to be imported. Because of class inheritance, all public methods and variables of a class are inherited by its sub classes.
Example
The following function uses public access control -
public static void main(String[] arguments) {
// ...
}The main() method of an application has to be public. Otherwise, it could not be called by a Java interpreter (such as java) to run the class.
Updated on: 24-Feb-2020
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