You want a private variable and a public static accessor/mutator pair: public class test {
private static int var; public static void setVar(int i) { var = i; } public static int getVar() { return var; } } -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Wed, January 26, 2005 2:11 pm, PA said: > > On Jan 26, 2005, at 20:08, Ashish Kulkarni wrote: > >> how do i protect it from updated >> by any other class. > > Just don't. Use a static accessor method instead. > > Cheers > > -- > PA > http://alt.textdrive.com/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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