Summary of Class Member Access Modifiers

Access Modifier | Visibility | Inheritance —— | —— | —— | Private | Class only | Can’t be inherited |No modifier / Package | In package | Available if subclass in package| Protected | In package | Available in subclass | Public | Everywhere | Available in subclass |

There was once a private protected (both keywords at once) modifier that could be applied to methods or variables to make them accessible from a subclass outside the package, but make them private to the classes in that package. However, this was removed in Java 1.0’s release.