Eclipse designation method- tips from eclipse

Question

What does exactly mean these two signs ?

Answer 1

-The red one means: private method

-The yellow one means: protected method

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Answer 2

You can find much more info about icons here

http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/reference/ref-icons.htm

Answer 3

Those are visibility indicators. The red square means private, the yellow diamond protected, a green dot public, and a blue triangle no modifier i.e. package.

In this specific case you have to read the text to see where exactly the method is created.