Learn seven advanced techniques for working with fields and methods in Java, including recursion, method call chaining, pass-by-value arguments, and rules for calling methods ...

Author Richard Lawson also shows you how to call the Perl methods as if they were Java code with minimum fuss from the Java XML-RPC client.

There is a reason why Java method modifiers exist. If you call public methods internally and don't understand why, your developers could face major class issues.