What's the access modifier of the default constructor in java?

Question

We all know that if we don\'t specifically define a constructor, the compiler inserts an invisible zero-parameter constructor. I thought its access modifier was public, but

Answer 1

I would like to point out one more thing that I recently got. If you define a default constructor for your class then it's acess specifier will be what you assign. For example,

 public class A{
       A(){
       // do some stuff
       }
    }

Here the access specifier of the default constructor is package access and not public access (that of the class). However

 public class A{
       // no constructor is defined
    }

Here the compiler will sympathize with you and give you a default constructor whose access specifier will be same as the class , that is public.