What is encapsulation in Java?

Question

Can anyone explain encapsulation in Java in simple words?

Answer 1

Encapsulation is a data hiding in simple words. Encapsulation is one of the Objective oriented programming concepts of Java. Encapsulation in Java is hiding the variables and its methods of a class to other classes. We can only access this encapsulated data from the methods declared in that class.

We can use encapsulation in Java by using private before variables and public before methods in a class.

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