What is the Diff between Access Specifiers and Access Modifiers?

Answer 1

An Access Modifier is a key word in java that determines what level of access or visibility a particular java variable/method or class has. There are 4 basic access modifiers in java. They are:

1. Public

2. Protected

3. Default and

4. Private

Private is the most restrictive access modifier whereas public is the least restrictive. Default is the access protection you get when you do not specifically mention an access modifier to be used for a java object.

Answer 2

Just googling "java access specifiers" brings up relevant hits. It shouldn't, because there is no such thing. There are access modifiers.

This link:

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~heck/JAVAcourse/ch4/ss2_2.html

(which is wrong because it talks about access specifiers) has a useful table:

Summary of Access Modifiers

The following table summarizes the access level permitted by each modifier. Situation public protected default private Accessible to class

from same package? yes yes yes no Accessible to class

from different package? yes no, unless it is a subclassno no

Note the difference between the default access which is in fact more restricted than the protected access. Without access specifier (the default choice), methods and variables are accessible only within the class that defines them and within classes that are part of the same package. They are not visible to subclasses unless these are in the same package. protected methods and variables are visible to subclasses regardless of which package they are in.

Answer 3

An Access Modifier is a key word in java that determines what level of access or visibility a particular java variable/method or class has. There are 4 basic access modifiers in java. They are:

1. Public

2. Protected

3. Default and

4. Private

Private is the most restrictive access modifier whereas public is the least restrictive. Default is the access protection you get when you do not specifically mention an access modifier to be used for a java object.

Answer 4

They both mean the same.

An Access Modifier is a key word in java that determines what level of access or visibility a particular java variable/method or class has. There are 4 basic access modifiers in java. They are:

1. Public

2. Protected

3. Default and

4. Private

Private is the most restrictive access modifier whereas public is the least restrictive. Default is the access protection you get when you do not specifically mention an access modifier to be used for a java object.

Java programming does not run by just a single piece of class that has the whole functionality. You have hundreds of classes that interact with one another, passing data between them and returning output to the user of the system. So it is very important for members of one class to access members of another. Here members may refer to variables, methods and even classes. So, this is where the access modifiers come into picture. The modifier associated with every member of the class determines what level of visibility that member has.

Answer 5

An Access Modifier is a key word in java that determines what level of access or visibility a particular java variable/method or class has. There are 4 basic access modifiers in java. They are:

1. Public

2. Protected

3. Default and

4. Private

Private is the most restrictive access modifier whereas public is the least restrictive. Default is the access protection you get when you do not specifically mention an access modifier to be used for a java object

Answer 6

There is no such thing as an access specifier in Java.

Answer 7

There is no such thing as an access specifier in Java.