Name: krT82822 Date: 04/11/99


Even when the main method in the appliation's main class is non-public (i.e., declared without public keyword,) the Java VM accepts it and invokes it without any error/warning messages. This behaviour seems a violation against the section 12.1.4 of The Java Language Specification, which says "The method main must be declared public, static, and void."

E.g., when Hello.java is

class Hello {
        static void main ( String [] argv ) {
                System.out.println( "Hello, world" );
        }
}

current java command (or jre command) executes it successfully, although it should report the fact that the main must be declared as public.
(Review ID: 56812)
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