What do the icons for methods in Eclipse mean?

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Jonas picture Jonas · Oct 18, 2010 · Viewed 50k times · Source

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What do the icons in Eclipse mean?

In the "Package Explorer" in the Eclipse IDE, I can click on a Java class and list all its methods. The methods are displayed with a few different icons before the name, including a green circle or a red square.

What do these icons mean? Is there a webpage that explains them?

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mikej picture mikej · Oct 18, 2010

green circleGreen circle indicates a public method

red squareRed square indicates a private method

alt textYellow diamond indicates a protected method

alt textBlue triangle indicates default (package visible) method

This page gives an overview of all the icons used in Eclipse JDT. This page explains what the different access levels mean in Java terms, in case you aren't familiar with that.

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