title: Protected Static Method Access
body: <p>I am trying to use a protected static method in the Lucene information retrieval api. My understanding of static is that they are accessed from the class definition and my understanding of the protected keyword is that they can only be accessed from instances of that class or the subclass. So how exactly do you access a static protected method? Is my understanding mistaken? I am trying to call a protected static method from a library in an imported jar. How would I do that?</p>
  
  <p>In this case I am calling the loadStopwordSet from <a href="https://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/api/all/org/apache/lucene/analysis/StopwordAnalyzerBase.html" rel="noreferrer">StopwordAnalyzerBase</a></p>