Protected members not protected?

Question

I thought a protected member could only be accessed by the implementing class or an extension of it. Yet I have been able to set these variables inside another class. Is their something wrong with my JVM???
1.4.1_05
public class ComponentModel extends ContainerModel implements IComponentModel{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1;   
    public static final ModelType TYPE = ModelType.getType("LogicComponentModel");
    protected transient PropertyChangeListener pcl = new LCMPropertyChangeListener();
    //transients are assigned in contructors and clone and serialization methods
    //for consistency.
    protected transient Point m_offset;
    protected transient Rectangle m_sizeRect;
public final class WADComponentModel implements IComponentModel {
    public IBaseModel getCopy(){
        ComponentModel lcm = (ComponentModel)new ModelFactory(ComponentModel.TYPE).getNewObject();
        for(Iterator it = getChildren().iterator();it.hasNext();){
            IBaseModel model = (IBaseModel)it.next();
            model.setComponent(lcm);
            model.addPropertyChangeListener(lcm.pcl); //???
        lcm.m_offset = new Point(m_offset); //???
        lcm.m_sizeRect = new Rectangle(m_sizeRect);  //???
        return lcm;
}why am I able to set m_offset and m_sizeRect directly like this? Why am I able to access lcm.pcl directly???
Surely I have forgotten some simply Java principle. Or my Eclipse environment is somehow hosed.

Answer 1

As an above poster mentioned, if you scroll up it is described more clearly. I will post it though.
A member (class, interface, field, or method) of a reference (class, interface, or array) type or a constructor of a class type is accessible only if the type is accessible and the member or constructor is declared to permit access:
If the member or constructor is declared public, then access is permitted. All members of interfaces are implicitly public.
Otherwise, if the member or constructor is declared protected, then access is permitted only when one of the following is true:
Access to the member or constructor occurs from within the package containing the class in which the protected member or constructor is declared.
Access is correct as described in ?6.6.2.