Will protected member be inherited in subclasses in hierarchy?

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Accepted Answer

Yes, protected members are inherited in subclasses in hierarchy.

Protected members are accessible within the class and its subclasses.
They are not accessible outside the class hierarchy.
Subclasses can access protected members of their parent class.
Example: class A has a protected member x, class B extends A can access x.
Example: class C extends B can also access x.

Accepted Answer

Yes, Protected modifier fields and methods are used in

own class as enclosing
Same package
Sub classes

Some more information that protected and private modifier is not used as class level. It's used in fields and methods

Protected modifier has less restriction than private and default modifier and more restriction than public. The given below is least restriction to most restriction from left to right

public > protected > default > private

private can be used only it's own class
default can be used in it's own class and same package
private can be used in it's own class, same package and in sub classes
public can be used in out of class too.

Accepted Answer

Subclassing and Inheritance Classes in Java exist in a hierarchy. A class in Java can be declared as a subclass of another class using the extends keyword.

Will protected member be inherited in subclasses in hierarchy?

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