Java vs .Net Accessor Modifiers

I’ve been looking at some .Net code recently, and I wanted to do some comparisons on Java access modifiers vs .Net to help me better understand the code.

In Java, the modifiers are (in order of least to most visible):

private, default (or package level), protected and public.

In .Net, I believe they are:

private, protected, internal, protected internal, public

My understanding of the comparisons of the Java vs .Net modifiers are (again in order of least to most visible):

Java
.Net
Notes



private
private
only accessible from within its own class N/A



default
N/A
package level access 


N/A
protected
accessible from subclasses


N/A
internal
internal means accessible from the same assembly.
In Java this would be accessible from the same jar
but Java doesn't support such a mechanism.  


protected
protected internal
In Java, means accessible from any subclass,
or any class in the same package
In .Net it means accessible in the same assembly,
or from within a derived class in another assembly 


public
public
Accessible from any class

 

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