"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:du4vft$1isn$1 at digitaldaemon.com... > > And the problem that the OP posted is most likely related to the > "protection attributes mean nothing if you use a fully qualified name" > bug. You might be right about it being a bug - 'protected' and 'package' are ignored on static class methods too.