Method overloading or not?

Question

scenario: There are two methods in same class with same name with different arguments and different access modifiers. E.g.:

public void m1(int a){}
private void m1(String b){}

is it overloading or not?

Answer 1

Yes - in a word, yes. To quote Oracle's Java tutorial:

This means that methods within a class can have the same name if they have different parameter lists

In other words - the access modifiers are inconsequential to this discussion.