Access Modifiers

Below is a table mapping C# access modifiers to Java's. C++ fans who were disappointed when Sun changed the semantics of the protected keyword in Java 2 will be happy to note that the C# protected keyword has the same semantics as the C++ version. This means that a protected member can only be accessed by member methods in that class or member methods in derived classes but is inaccessible to any other classes. The internal modifier means that the member can be accessed from other classes in the same assembly as the class. The internal protected modifier means that a member can be accessed from classes that are in the same assembly or from derived classes.

C# access modifier	Java access modifier
private	private
public	public
internal	protected
protected	N/A
internal protected	N/A

NOTE: The default accessibility of a C# field or method when no access modifier is specified is private while in Java it is protected (except that derived classes from outside the package cannot inherit the field).