Because an interface is like a contract/skeleton which decides what the implementing class has to do. So, if any entity in an interface is protected, they would not be available to the class that is implementing the interface.
Hence, all the variables and methods declared inside an interface are public by default
There is no such thing as an access specifier in Java. There are access modifiers. They specify the access level of the item they modify: public, private, protected.
Three types of access specifier private , public ,protected
These are all access modifiers in Java. a. Public - these are accessible anywhere. This is the least restrictive access specifier. b. Private - these are accessible only inside the declaring class. This is the most restrictive access specifier. c. Protected - these are in between public and private. These are accessible to all classes that inherit this class d. Package - this is the default access specifier. These are accessible to all classes that are present in the same package as the contained class.
Public, protected and private access members.
An access specifier is a keyword applied to a variable, or method, which indicates which parts of the program are permitted to access it.
A private member of a class can only be accessed by methods of that class. A protected member of a class can only be accessed by methods of that class and by methods of a derived class of that class.
An access modifier is another name for an access specifier, which in object-orientated software is a keyword applied to a variable which indicates which other parts of the programme are permitted to access it.
Default access specifier in c# is private. if you don't specify it automaticaly takes it as private.
A class method or attribute (data item) that is declared protected can be accessed only by methods of the same class or by methods of derived classes of the class.
use of public access specifier iswe can access the class members(methods,variables) out side the class using class reference
We define the access specifier of a function at the place of its method signature(The place we write the method's name).for example,public void sample(){}here "public" is the access specifier of function name-sample.
It isn't. Private is the default access for class members. For struct members, the default access is public. Aside from default access, a class and a struct serve the same purpose; to define a class. As such, the following class definitions are equivalent: class X { int a; }; struct Y { private: int b; }; Typically, we use a struct to define simple data types with trivial construction and use class for more complex data types, often to encapsulate an invariant or to acquire a resource, hiding the implementation details from consumers using private access.