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Hello,

Inner Classes are inherited by subclass, right?
I did a example and I declared a inner class (as public) in a super class X and I can to instance the inner by the instance of the subclass Y (Y extends X).

But, later I declared the same inner class in class Y but with the modifier private and none compiler error happen... Why?
 
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The inner class behaves just like a member of the outer class. Subclasses cannot inherit private members of the super class. That is why you get a compiler error in the second case.

[ January 06, 2008: Message edited by: Dean Jones ]
[ January 06, 2008: Message edited by: Dean Jones ]
 
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the overding concept is for methods not for innerclasses or varibles so in this case you are redefining the inner class so you are not getting compilation error even with more restrictive modifer.
 
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Hi Alexsandra,

Can you please paste the code which you have been using?
 
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