What's the use case of a protected method in a final class in Java?

Question

Consider this code from the official OpenJDK source of java.awt.font.TextLayout:

public final class TextLayout {

    /* ... */

    protected v         


        

Answer 1

To be used only in its own package

protected - member - Accessible only within its package and its subclasses

if someone defines a method as final then it cannot be Cannot be overridden and dynamically looked up.

Reference here: http://www.javacamp.org/javaI/Modifier.html