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As the title says, in Ruby, ‘keywords’ such as private, public etc are actually “methods that operate on the class ,dynamically altering the visibility of the methods” ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Syntax/Classes ) – is this the same in Java?
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No. In Java this maps to something in the bytecode the the JVM understands (and enforces). The compiler makes use of it itself, too.
There is no “dynamic compilation/class manipulation” that happens when the class is loaded, like you can do in Ruby or Perl.