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From: Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm>
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Lew schrieb:
> "A private method and all methods declared immediately
 > within a final class (§8.1.1.2) behave as if they are
 > final, since it is impossible to override them."

The above refers to a final class and not to a final
method.

private methods can be overshadowed. You can try the
following code by yourself:

     class A {
        private void init() { };
     }

     class B extends A {
        public void init() { };
     }

It does compile, and the class loader does also
accept it.

 > Bad choice of words.  I know what you mean, but
 > "static" has a particular meaning in Java and this
 > isn't it.

Oops, I had in mind that there are instructions invokestatic
and invokedynamic, but infact the relevant instructions
are called invokespecial and invokevirtual.

The invokespecial instruction is used for private methods.
See here:
http://cs.au.dk/~mis/dOvs/jvmspec/ref--33.html

Bye