Inheritance – Member Access
If any of the method or data member is declared private then that private variable or member method is not inherited to the derived class. Consider an example of this :
class BasicClass {
int a = 100; // by default package access
private int j = 200;
void functionBase() // by default package access, will be inherited
{
System.out.println("inside BasicClass");
}
private void functionBase2() // this function will not be inherited in
// derived class
{
System.out.println("inside provate function");
}
public void functionBase3() // will be inherited
{
System.out.println("inside functionbase3");
}
}
public class PrivateInheritance extends BasicClass {
public static void main(String[] args) {
BasicClass b = new BasicClass();
System.out.println(b.a);// a is visible here, because of package access
b.j; // gives error, j not visible here
b.functionBase(); // will execute as functionBase() available here
b.functionBase2(); // will give error
b.functionBase3(); // will execute
}
}
