Question

With the help of an example explain how you can access a private member of a base class. 

Answer 1

A private member of a base class can be accessed by calling the base class's public method that returns the private member. This is shown in the example below. 

class A {
    private int x;

    public A() {
        x = 10;
    }

    public int getX() {
        return x;
    }
}

class B extends A {
    public void showX() {
        System.out.println("Value of x = " + getX());
    }
}