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What is the scope of public access modifier in Java?
The public modifier has the widest scope. When a class or its members declared public they are accessible from everywhere. A default class or its members are available to any other class in the same package.
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 subclasses.
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: 30-Jul-2019
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