"Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This will probably prove I'm clueless... anyway...
>
> File ActionLoader, method exec(), does this:
>
> getInstance(name).perform(data);
>
> Method getInstance() returns an object of class
> Action. This class declares method perform as:
>
> protected void perform( RunData data )
> throws Exception;
>
> Stupid question: how can ActionLoader invoke method
> perform() over an Action object, if this method is
> declared a protected? Shouldn't it be accessible only
> to class Action and all its descendants?
Protected methods have package-level visibility (in addition to
derived class visibility).
> I realized this when trying to change the invocation
> to a method passed as a String parameter. When trying
> to reflect the default method name ("perform"), I
> get an exception NoSuchMethod.
I suppose you could subclass Action and wrap the protected method in a
public pass through.
Daniel
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