How to hide the internal structure of a Java API to the rest of the world

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There are two solutions to your question that don’t involve keeping all classes in the same package.

The first is to use the Friend Accessor/Friend Package pattern described in (Practical API Design, Tulach 2008).

The second is to use OSGi.

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