default constructor

[Yi Meng]

i saw somewhere stating that the default contructor always has public or defult access visibility.
But to me, i suppose those default constructor within private inner class would have private visibility and so for protected. is it true?

[Lawrence Chettiar]

Yep as per JLS
If the class is declared public, then the default constructor is implicitly given the access modifier public (�6.6); if the class is declared protected, then the default constructor is implicitly given the access modifier protected (�6.6); if the class is declared private, then the default constructor is implicitly given the access modifier private (�6.6); otherwise, the default constructor has the default access implied by no access modifier
Hope this helps
Lawrence