Hint: The visibility of the constructor is not set by placing the definition of the method CONSTRUCTOR in the respective section of the class definition. In fact, before SAP NetWeaver 7.0, it was mandatory to place the constructor syntactically in the public section. Since SAP NetWeaver 7.0, it is allowed, but not required to place the constructor in the protected or private section - if this is not more restrictive than the CREATE… addition in the class definition. This is to increase the readability of the coding.