Access Specifiers in JAVA | What is Access Specifier | Types and how do they work?

What is Access Specifiers

Access specifier defines the accessibility of data members (methods/variables)

Types

• Public 
• Private 
• Protected
• Default

An easy and quick way to understand how different data members can be accessed with these Access specifiers 

• Public  - Can be accessed anywhere | Inside and Outside Projects | With and Without Inheritance

• Private - Can be accessed only Inside a Class

• Protected - Can be accessed inside and outside the Package. We need to use inheritance to access protected data members outside the class

• Default - Can be accessed only inside the Package