How the protected finalize method is called by garbage collector

Dear All,
I have a double regarding the calling mechanism of finalize method. The access specifier of finalize method is protected, not only that if a class overrides this method then also the finalize method can be protected in the subclass of Object. But the concept of protected access specifier is, from outside of the package it can be accessed only from subclass.
The program (may be part of Garbage collector), which calls this (finalize) method mast not be in the same package (that is java.jang) nor it is a subclass of the class (whose finalize method it calls).
Then how the finalize method is getting called by the garbage collector when it is protected?
Regards,
Gourab

Refer to following link for the details
http://www.me.umn.edu/~shivane/blogs/cafefeed/2005/09/why-is-finalize-method-protected.html
The link gives answer to how a protected/private members are accessible to JVM or GC and why finalize is declared protected.

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