can we achieve data hiding withe the help of encapsulation...

Hi All,

Can we say that we can achieve data hiding with the help of encapsulation...?? please correct me if I am wrong....
regards....

yes, you can hide your own implementation from world.

But i have read at so many places that encapsulation and information hiding are two different things. According to my understanding,
encapsulation is the mechanism that binds together code an data it manipulates.
Information hiding is hiding the data by using access specifiers like private, protected or default, so how can we relate encapsulation and information hiding.
I am very much confuse in these concepts. Please help me to make clear understanding of these concepts.

thanks in advance

public :any class in any package can access;
private

nly members in the same class can access directly;
protected: subclass or class in the same package can access directly.

Mr. Chen,
Welcome to ranch, i appreciate your words that you have written but i don't think this is the answer of my question...

Encapsulation and data hiding in Java are the same thing.

Mr. Stephan,
Could you please tell me how?

What do you mean how? They are two different terms that refer to the same thing: Restricting the visibility of members so that they are only used by the classes responsible for them.