Is it ok for a field and a method to have the same name?

AbstractTokenizer.java

package com.company;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Created by IDEA on 27/01/15.
 */
public abstract class AbstractTokenizer implements Tokenizer {
    boolean skipSpaces;
    boolean tokenizeSpaces;
    boolean tokenizeNumbers;
    boolean tokenizeWords;
    boolean testquotes;
    Tokenizer.WordRecognizer wordRecognizer;
    Map keywordMap;
    String openquotes, closequotes;
    boolean trackPosition;

    int maximumTokenLength = 16 * 1024;
    // init token type to beginning of file
    int tokenType = BOF;
    int tokenLine = 0;
    int tokenColumn = 0;
    int tokenKeyword = -1;
    int line = 0, column = 0;
    boolean eof;

    protected int tokenStart = 0;
    protected int tokenEnd = 0;
    protected int p = 0;
    protected int numChars = 0;
    protected char[] text = null;
    protected abstract void createBuffer(int bufferSize);
    protected abstract boolean fillBuffer() throws IOException;

    public Tokenizer skipSpaces(boolean skip) {
        ...
    }



}