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  2. JDK-4123954

IllegalAccessError thrown trying to - "Accessing Member of Inaccessible Class"

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    • solaris_2.5.1

      Licensee is questioning the JLS section 8.2.1.4, "Accessing Members of
      Inaccessible Classes". Licensee believes he is incorrectly getting error :

      java.lang.IllegalAccessError: try to access class
      morePoints/Point3d from class points/Point
      at points.Point.main(Point.java:13)

      when trying to run code:

              // file: Point.java
              package points;

              import morePoints.Point4d;

              public class Point {
                  public int x, y;
                  public void move (int dx, int dy) {
                    x += dx; y += dy;
                  }

                  // I added the method main to what appears in the JLS.
                  public static void main (String [] argv) {
                    Point4d o_4d = new Point4d ();

                   // This line produces the same erroneous illegal access
                   // error. The JLS says that "the field z, which, being
                   // public, could then be accessed by code in packages
                   // other than morePoints, through variables and expressions
                   // of the public type Point4d.
                    o_4d.z = 10;
                  }

              }


              // file: Point4d.java
              package morePoints;

              class Point3d extends points.Point {
                  public int z;
                  public void move (int dx, int dy, int dz) {
                      super.move (dx, dy); z += dz;
                  }
              }

              public class Point4d extends morePoints.Point3d {
                  public int w;
                  public void move (int dx, int dy, int dz, int dw) {
                      super.move (dx, dy, dz); w += dw;
                  }
              }

      His sample code used to work using JDK1.2Beta2 and now doesn't work
      using JDK1.2Beta3.

            sliangsunw Sheng Liang (Inactive)
            jbenoit Jonathan Benoit (Inactive)
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