Is it possible to hide or lower access to Inherited Methods in Java?

Question

I have a class structure where I would like some methods in a base class to be accessible from classes derived directly from the base class, but not classes derived from der

Answer 1

No. I'm not sure why you'd quote the spec and then ask if there's any way to do the opposite of what the spec says...

Perhaps if you explain why you want to do this, you could get some suggestions on how.