r.praveenkumar

 Profile Answers by r.praveenkumar 

• Nov 21st, 2007

 

It will result in error you will not be able to compile

ksatya

• Nov 21st, 2007

 

Nothing happens. The code will run fine. you can have public/private/protected methods. main in one of the method if you make protected. But if you want to execute this as an application then you have to give public static void main.

Thanks,
KSatya

Sushil Jain

• Nov 21st, 2007

 

You will be able to compile but it will through a run time error saying "main method not public".

satheesh kumar sriramaneni

• Nov 22nd, 2007

 

We can able to compile that java file, means we can get the class file.
But we can't get the predicted value.

Prashant

• Nov 23rd, 2007

 

If we made it private then its scope gets changed ie private and hence while runing any java program it will call main method first as becasue its scope is public and hence if it is private then the main would not gets called implicitly we have to call that explicitly

sid

• Nov 26th, 2007

 

It gets compiled, but at run time it says that it is not public. Because JVM is not capable to access the static method of main class. Actully JVM is present out side of the class so access modifier is not allowed to do to access the main method.

prdeep

 Profile Answers by prdeep 

• Dec 14th, 2007

 

It gets compiled, but at run time it says that it is not public. Because JVM is not capable to access the static method of main class. Actully JVM is present out side of the class so access modifier is not allowed to do to access the main method.

shaik subhani

 Profile Answers by shaik subhani 

• Dec 17th, 2007

 

It will be compiles ,but it displays runtime error by saying main method is not public

r.praveenkumar

 Profile Answers by r.praveenkumar 

• Dec 27th, 2007

 

  I am using JCreator java compiler in that i am able to compile and execute the program also if i made main() as protected

shaik subhani

 Profile Answers by shaik subhani 

• Jan 3rd, 2008

 

If you declare main method as protected ,it will compile  but it gives runtime error saying as main method is not public.

keshavgopal.se

 Profile Answers by keshavgopal.se 

• Jan 9th, 2008

 

It will get compiled, but at run time it will say  class "class name"  does not have main method.

sampra

 Profile Answers by sampra 

• Feb 11th, 2008

 

Illegal combination of modifiers: public and protected
protected public static void main(String as[])

Error will come

rajamuthuramans

 Profile Answers by rajamuthuramans 

• May 22nd, 2008

 

You will get "Main method not public" if u change public to protected.

shaik subhani

 Profile Answers by shaik subhani 

• Jun 17th, 2009

 

It compiles but gives runtime exception like "Main method is not public".

divya_mini4u

 Profile Answers by divya_mini4u 

• Sep 21st, 2010

 

The complier will throw error that there is no main()  method. main() should be public always please note.

AA

• Apr 22nd, 2012

 

It will compile but gives error at run time......