Protected Access

[henley]

I thought I remembered reading that protected fields/methods were accessible to only one level of subclasses. When I recently tested that, I found that it was not true. Does anyone else remember reading that in some book and if so which book?

[Anonymous]

Hi!
protected varibles/methods can be accessible from the same class,sub classes in the same package, other classes in the same package and sub classes in other packages.
i dont know from which book i found it but i read it in some book.