What is the use of access specifiers in Java?

JAVA ACCESS SPECIFIERS. The access to classes, constructors, methods and fields are regulated using access modifiers i.e. a class can control what information or data can be accessible by other classes. ... A member has package or default accessibility when no accessibility modifier is specified. read more

Access specifiers for classes. When a class is declared as public, it is accessible to other classes defined in the same package as well as those defined in other packages. This is the most commonly used specifier for classes. A class cannot be declared as private. read more