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Posted by Kishori Sharan on December 24, 2000 at 3:28 PM

It has to be public because Java Virtual Machine makes a call to it when you try to run your class from command line. However, you can also define ( I mean overload ) main methods for a class and for those methods it is up you to decide what access you want to provide for those methods.

Thanx
Kishori