I am really confused regarding overriding

[prarthana reddy]

HI,
We know that private methods are not overriden . If we have a method with same name in super class and sub class but declared as private in superclass and public in subclass and if we try to invoke subclass method with a superclass reference, it should give compile error . But the following code is giving me the output:I am saying hello. How is this possible ?
public class Person {
private void say(String s){
System.out.println("I'm saying: " + s);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Person p = new Director();
p.say("Hello");
}
}
class Director extends Person {
public void say(String s){
System.out.println("I'm the director");
}
}

[Radoslaw Sztando]

you're running private say() method from class where it is defined (class Person) - it's perfectly correct.

[prarthana reddy]

Thankyou for your reply ..i dint notice that