Yesterday the following email came across our company technology mailing list:
>Hi All,
>
>I am new to Java Technology. Can we access private methods outside the class?
Needless to say we all got a pretty good laugh over this “dumb” question. The laugh is on us though, as it turns out you can.

I’m just sitting here at our morning track status meeting. Here you see Sid giving the track wide announcements. Behind him you can see our test script pass/fail board. Pretty, eh?