needs explanation

[Venkat Ramsimha]

class MyOuter2 {
private String x = "Outer2";
void doStuff() {
class MyInner {
public void seeOuter() {
System.out.println("Outer x is " + x);
} // close inner class method
} // close inner class definition
MyInner mi = new MyInner(); // This line must come
// after the class
mi.seeOuter();
} // close outer class method doStuff()
} // close outer class

can anybody provide with the explantion as how the output is generated?

thanks
venkat

[marc weber]

Assuming you create an instance of MyOuter2 and call the doStuff() method...

Within doStuff(), a new instance of MyInner is created using the local class definition.

The method seeOuter() is called on that instance.

The method seeOuter() prints a line, accessing MyOuter's private variable x in the process.