What is the example of indirect access to private member of superclass from subclass?
A nested class has access to all the private members of its enclosing class—both fields and methods. Therefore, a public or protected nested class inherited by a subclass has indirect access to all of the private members of the superclass.
Quote from http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/subclasses.html
In the quote, we talk about "nested" class
here is an example of how an inner class can access private fields of the outer class.
class OuterClass {
private int x = 7;
public void makeInner(){
InnerClass in = new InnerClass();
in.seeOuter();
}
class InnerClass {
public void seeOuter() {
System.out.println("Outer x is " + x);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
OuterClass.InnerClass inner = new OuterClass().new InnerClass();
inner.seeOuter();
}
}
Finally, if you extend a class with the InnerClass, they will also access the private fields of the OuterClass if your InnerClass is public or protected