John Keiser wrote:
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stuart Ballard
> >
> > FWIW, I strongly agree with John about protected classes. Protected
> > members of a class *ARE* part of the public API in Java.
I think you guys are debating different points. I hope no one's arguing that
protected members shouldn't be included in classpath. But John is right, I
can't think of an example of a protected _class_.
> Can you show one example of a protected class in the documentation? I think
> that would settle this for good. Paul asserted that there were no protected
> classes in JavaDoc and concluded based on that that Sun didn't intend for
> protected classes to be part of the public API.
>
> --John Keiser
Wes
