Re: better javap comparisons

[Aaron M. Renn]

>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.

Not an entire class, but there are many, many protected methods and fields.
Also, there are clear references to "internal" classes.  For example,
java.net.SocketImpl implements and undocumented interface called
"SocketOptions".

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