Why am I able to call private method?

Question

I should not be able to invoke a private method of an instantiated object. I wonder why the code below works.

public class SimpleApp2 {
    /**
     * @param         


        

Answer 1

Your main method is a method of SimpleApp, so it can call SimpleApp's private methods.

Just because it's a static method doesn't prevent it behaving like a method for the purposes of public, private etc. private only prevents methods of other classes from accessing SimpleApp's methods.