Re: Handling private jtextfields

Jl_G_0 wrote:


     There's that word "private" again ...

     Objects are not private or protected or public or
whatever; the access control mechanisms have nothing
to do with them. One easy way to see this is with a
simple (and rather silly) class:

    class Silly {
        private Integer priv = new Integer(42);
        protected Integer prot = priv;
        public Integer publ = priv;
        Integer dflt = priv;
    }

Each Silly instance "wraps" an Integer instance -- but
is that Integer private, or protected, or public, or
package-private? It's just one Integer object, so it
can't have all these different access levels at the
same time! In fact, the Integer has *no* access level;
accessibility doesn't mean anything for objects.

     So when you refer to "private JTextFields from
another class," I don't know what you're talking about.
And I rather suspect you don't know, either: it seems
likely that you're trying to understand Java by applying
notions from another framework, and that the analogies
are not close enough to be useful.

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Eric.Sosman@sun.com