Advantages of inner classes

[Pradeep bhatt]

What are the advantages of inner class?

[Chris Stehno]

There are many advantages, though some of them are really personal or design preference.
1 - with inner classes you can access private members of the enclosing class.
2 - they are useful for interface implementations that are only used by the enclosing class (event handlers in a application)
3 - they are useful for providing fine grained access and creation control over an interface implementation that is retrieved externally (maybe something like an Iterator implementation)
Once you learn how to use them effectively you will wonder what you did without them.
Hope this helps.

[Dirk Schreckmann]

You're likely to stumble upon a few good past conversations on inner classes when trying a search on one of the Java in General forums or the OO forum.
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