A Restriction on Protected Access

<p><span style="font-size:14px;">假设类D继承自类B,类B中有一个protected的成员属性n,并且类D和类B在不同的包中，所以类D和类B如下定义：</span></p>

<span style="font-size:14px;">package one;
public class B
{
        protected int n;
        ...
}

package two;
import  one.B;
public class D extends B
{
       ....
}</span>

然后D中便可以出现如下方法：

<span style="font-size:14px;">public void demo()
{
       n = 42;
}</span>

也可以像下面这样：

<span style="font-size:14px;">public void demo2()
{
       D object = new D();
       object.n = 42;
}</span>

但是不能出现下面的方法：

<span style="font-size:14px;">public void demo3()
{
        B object = new B();
        object.n = 42;
}</span>

编译器会给出一个错误信息说n在B中是被保护的。protected的成员方法同样如此。

A class can access its own classes’ inherited variables and methods that are marked
protected in the base class, but cannot directly access any such instance variables or
methods of an object of the base class (or of any other derived class of the base class). In
the above example, n is an instance variable of the base class B and an instance variable of
the derived class D. D can access n whenever n is used as an instance variable of D, but D
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If the classes B and D are in the same package, you will not get the error message
because, in Java, protected access implies package access. In particular, if the classes B and
D are both in the default package, you will not get the error message.