Modifier protected does not hide inherited members to (static) code of superclass package Query

[Mohit G Gupta]

i have changed the code a bit.

AClass.java

 package A;  
  
public class AClass {  
  protected void m() {  
    System.out.println("A");  
  }  
}     

BClass.java

  package B;  
  
import A.AClass;  
  
public class BClass extends AClass {  
private int m=12;
  public void m1() {  
    System.out.println("B");  
    System.out.println("Super:");  
    super.m();  
  }  }  

Test.java

  package A;  
  
import B.BClass;  
  
public class Test {  
  public static void main(String[] args) {  
    BClass b = new BClass();  
    ((AClass)b).m(); //
    b.m1(); //
    //System.out.println("bmvalue"+b.m);
    b.m();
  }  
}    

OUTPUT:
A
B
Super:
A
A

K&Bs Book tells me on Page 36:
Once a Subclass-outside-the-package inherits the protected member, that member (as inherited by the subclass) becomes private to any code outside the subclass, with the exception of subclass of the subclass.

here,m is protected member of AClass that is inherited by BClass.so,by above statement m in BClass would be Invisible outside BClass.
but ,it is accessible in Test.java

SEE LINE 8,11

how is this possible ?

[Aneesh Vijendran]

public class BClass extends AClass {
private int m=12;
[public [/b]void m1()

You have made it public. How could it be private?

Cheers
Aneesh

[Mohit G Gupta]

i am talking about m method and not m1

[Aneesh Vijendran]

Mohit,

Your Test.java & AClass.java are using the same package (package A)

If you expect this not to work, then you should override the m method in BClass.java

Hope this clears.

Cheers
Aneesh

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

Make m() method as private in the class AClass, and see what happens!

[Alexander Exner]

AFAIK this happens:
1) Compiler indeed does not see inherited protected method m() in package B (BClass).
2) Therefore compiler looks at superclasses and finds protected method m() as defined in package A (AClass). Compiler is happy with that because its the same package as the "caller".
3) Runtime behavior was in my original example (http://www.coderanch.com/t/504882/java-programmer-SCJP/certification/Modifier-protected-does-not-hide) different, but in this example the JVM has only one choice as well: m() from AClass.

Maybe K&B should go a little bit more in detail on page 36...

KR Alex