Description Shane Holder 2004-02-24 10:29:56 EST

I'm working on some code similar to below and I'm experiencing
differences between the Sun java compiler and the Eclipse incremental
compiler in how they see protected attributes of a class.

In Eclipse, I get the error "Type myPrivateClass.Goober is not
visible." on all accesses to x, y, and z.  But when I compile the code
using 1.4.2_01 of the Sun SDK I only receive 2 errors one on x and the
other on z.

-8< file: myPrivateClass.java ----------------------------
package myPackage;
public final class  myPrivateClass {
    
	private class Goober {
	    private int x;
	    protected int y;
	    public int z;
	}
	Goober goober = new Goober();
}

-8< file: myTestClass.java ------------------------------
package myPackage;
public class myTestClass {
	public void lmnop() {
		myPrivateClass x = new myPrivateClass();
		x.goober.x = 0; // private not accessable via javac
		x.goober.y = 1; // protected accessable via javac
		x.goober.z = 2; // public not accessable via javac
	}
}
-8< file: build.xml ------------------------------
<project name="stuff" default="default" basedir=".">
<property name="build.dest" value="./bin" />
<target name="default">
<mkdir dir="${build.dest}"/>
<javac 	   srcdir="."
           destdir="${build.dest}"
	   />
</target>
</project>