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What happens if public static void main(){} is made protected?

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Last Update: May 22, 2008 Asked by: venkat

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Submitted by: ksatya

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.

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November 21, 2007 06:15:52

r.praveenkumar

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RE: What happens if public static void main(){} is mad...

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

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November 21, 2007 06:32:56

ksatya

RE: What happens if public static void main(){} is mad...

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

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November 21, 2007 08:00:39

Sushil Jain

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

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November 22, 2007 07:56:30

satheesh kumar sriramaneni

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

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November 23, 2007 02:01:17

Prashant

RE: What happens if public static void main(){} is mad...

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

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November 26, 2007 02:37:47

sid

RE: What happens if public static void main(){} is mad...

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.

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December 14, 2007 13:32:07

prdeep

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December 17, 2007 23:05:47

shaik subhani

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RE: What happens if public static void main(){} is made protected?

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

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