Marking data as private in class

Greenhorn

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Can some one let me know what is the advantage of marking the variable as private in a class and providing a interface for accessing them ? for example.
Class A {
Private int name=null;

provide agettter method for accessing the name vaiable.
}

J Young

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Hi

You talking about encapsulation. It is one of the oo programming techniques.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_%28computer_science%29#Encapsulation

James

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