Protected access in Java should be used very sparingly

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Yesterday I was reviewing a Java program of mine that I’ve been working on a few years now. A friend of mine, who is quite proficient with Swift, asked me about the protected access level in Java.

In that very moment I realized that my choice of access level all those years ago had been wrong, and also that following the single responsibility principle generally leads to…