Inheritance doubt

[saloni jhanwar]

What You Can Do in a Subclass

A subclass inherits all of the public and protected members of its parent, no matter what package the subclass is in. If the subclass is in the same package as its parent, it also inherits the package-private members of the parent. You can use the inherited members as is, replace them, hide them, or supplement them with new members:

Now in same document there is another one given below.

Private Members in a Superclass

A subclass does not inherit the private members of its parent class.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/subclasses.html

I am not getting how private member will be accessible through inheritance.

[naveen yadav]

i don't know which "document" you are reading from but private members are never inhered in any case.
Better to read from reliable resources . http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/

[Paul Clapham]

saloni jhanwar wrote:A subclass does not inherit the private members of its parent class.

In other words, the private members are not accessible through inheritance. (Statements about package-private members are irrelevant to that fact.)

I am not getting how private member will be accessible through inheritance.

[saloni jhanwar]

Paul Clapham wrote:
In other words, the private members are not accessible through inheritance.

Yes,but look first quote also.Can you explain about that ?

[Junilu Lacar]

The first one you quoted says package-private, in other words, the default visibility if you do not specify private, protected, or public.

[saloni jhanwar]

Junilu Lacar wrote:The first one you quoted says package-private, in other words, the default visibility if you do not specify private, protected, or public.

I am not getting your mean here.

[Henry Wong]

saloni jhanwar wrote:

Junilu Lacar wrote:The first one you quoted says package-private, in other words, the default visibility if you do not specify private, protected, or public.

I am not getting your mean here.

There are four accessibility specifier types -- private, protected, public, and a fourth type. The fourth type is sometimes called the default type, sometimes called the package-private type, and to specify it, you need to not use the private, protected, or public keywords.

Henry

[Winston Gutkowski]

saloni jhanwar wrote:I am not getting your mean here.

The meaning is quite simple: 'private' and 'package-private' don't mean the same thing; as Henry just explained.

Winston