Why use "private"?

Hello Java experts,
My questions for today is: why should we use the "private" visibility modifier? isn't "protected" much better? when will we define instance variables as "private" and not "protected"? I can't find a good reason for doing so.
Thank You,
Maya.

The reason cannot be explaines in short & crisp manner .Read a good book on Object Oriented Programming. "private" is not to java alone but to all OO programming languages. If you need to protect your members (instance variables & methods) from other classes i.e( they can help only the enclosing class) it shouls be made private. This NOT at all the only reason!
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Sekar

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