On Thursday 05 February 2004 19:53, Leo Simons wrote: > Security management > can be turned of rather easily, and then clients can use the same > package name to gain access.
Well... Users can do Reflection to access private members as well... > > And in my case, I hardly ever have 'protected' in COP scenarios, SoC > > quickly falls apart with inheritence. > > yep. I tend to overuse 'protected', then hunt for usages (esp. > overriding methods) every once in a while. Just to remind you, the "modifier hierarchy" is; public -> protected -> package -> private So a protected method can be called by a class in the same package, it doesn't have to be a subclass, and your "user put things in same package" all over again... Niclas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
