method local inner class

[Shiva Mohan]

i thought final varaibles of enclosing class only accessible in method local inner class like method local variable(y1)
but i1 and i are accessing inside inner class.Why?

    
public class Threedimensinal
{ 
    private int i=1;
  protected static int i1=1;
  final int i2=6;
   void method(){
       final int y1=9;
   
  class Inner{
      void methodinner(){
     System.out.println("i "+ i);
      System.out.println("i1 "+ i1);
      }
             
  }
 Inner n=new Inner();
   n.methodinner();
   }
  public static void main(String args[])
  {
    Threedimensinal t=new Threedimensinal();
    t.method();
  }
}

[marc weber]

It's only the non-final local (method) variables that the local class cannot use. The reason is that local (method) variables are destroyed when the method exits. If these are final, then their values can be copied into any instances of the local class.

But the local class can use non-final variables outside the method (that is, members of the enclosing class).