Access Specifiers • Java provides access specifiers to control access to class members • Access specifiers help implement: – Encapsulation by hiding implementation-level details in a class – Abstraction by exposing only the interface of the class to the external world • The private access specifier is generally used to encapsulate or hide the member data in the class
• The public access specifier is used to expose the member
Class Declaration for Point (Contd.). class PointDemo { public static void main(String args[ ] ){ int a, b; Point p1 = new Point( ); p1.setX(22); p1.setY(44); a = p1.getX( ); System.out.println("The value of a is "+a); b = p1.getY( ); System.out.println("The value of b is "+b); Expected Output : } The value of a is 22 } The value of b is 24 Actual Output : The value of a is 0 The value of b is 0
Class Declaration for Point - modified (Contd.). class PointDemo { public static void main(String args[ ] ){ int a, b; Point p1 = new Point( ); p1.setX(22); p1.setY(44); a = p1.getX( ); System.out.println("The value of a is "+a); b = p1.getY( ); System.out.println("The value of b is "+b); } } Output : The value of a is 22 The value of b is 24
