8.1.5

Class Body and Member Declarations

CLASSES

8.1.5   Class Body and Member Declarations

A

class body

 may contain declarations of members of the class, that is, fields

( 8.3) and methods ( 8.4). A class body may also contain static initializers ( 8.5)

and declarations of constructors ( 8.6) for the class.

ClassBody:

{

ClassBodyDeclarations

opt

 }

ClassBodyDeclarations:

ClassBodyDeclaration

ClassBodyDeclarations ClassBodyDeclaration

ClassBodyDeclaration:

ClassMemberDeclaration

StaticInitializer

ConstructorDeclaration

ClassMemberDeclaration:

FieldDeclaration

MethodDeclaration

The scope of the name of a member declared in or inherited by a class type is the

entire body of the class type declaration.

8.2   Class Members

The members of a class type are all of the following:

Members inherited from its direct superclass ( 8.1.3), except in class

Object

,

which has no direct superclass

Members inherited from any direct superinterfaces ( 8.1.4)

Members declared in the body of the class ( 8.1.5)

Members of a class that are declared

private

 are not inherited by subclasses

of that class. Only members of a class that are declared

protected

 or

public

 are

inherited by subclasses declared in a package other than the one in which the class

is declared.

Constructors and static initializers are not members and therefore are not

inherited.

The example:

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