regarding top level classes

[vatsalya rao]

till now i understood that a top level class cant be private means any class that contains "MAIN" method cannot be private.

see the following code:


private class Base{}
public class Vis
{
transient int iVal;
public static void main(String elephant[])
{
}
}
when this code is compiled syaing that the class "Base" can not be private.
a top level class cant be private means any class that appears at first cant be private?

[Remko Strating]

For classes there can only be the public or default access

The following code will also not compile

   protected  class Base{}
public class Test
{
transient int iVal;
public static void main(String elephant[])
{
}
} 

[Ravi Pinnaboyina]

Top level classes mean that classes that are not inner classes, not the classes which have a main method.

[Prasad Shindikar]

except for public, final and default(ie if modifier not specified), none of the access modifiers can be used with a class.

hence your code will not compile

[Jetendra Ivaturi]

There can be any no. of toplevel classes. But we can give only public or defalult access specifiers.

It's not that the main method() should only be in top-level class. Main method can also be in inner class, but they can be declared private.

[murthy ramana]

hi folks,

i think inner classes cant have static declarations - so we cant write main() in an inner class.

thanks and regards,
murthy kvr