Accessing outer class members from instance of inner class

[Adam Zedan]

I know i could acess the members of the outer class from the inner class. The question is could i access the members of the outer class from an instance of the inner class
The code i am using is

class Outer
{
   public void outer_method()
   {System.out.println("Outer Method");}
   
      public class Inner
      {
	   void Innermethod()
	   {
		   System.out.println("Inner Method");
		   Outer.this.outer_method(); //access outer method
	   }
      }
}


public class Practise  
{
	
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		Outer out = new Outer();
		Outer.Inner in = out.new Inner();
	    in.outer_method() //error How can i access outer_method from instance of inner
	    
	}
}

[Darryl Burke]

The inner class does not have a method named outer_method.

Also. by convention method (and variable) names in Javastart with a lowercase letter and the first letter of each subsequent word is in uppercase.
outer_method --> outerMethod
Innermethod --> innerMethod

Consistent and conventional indenting also makes your code much more readable. I suggest you go through the code conventions for the Java programming language.

[Campbell Ritchie]

You can access that outer method from anywhere because it has public access. Change it to private access and see what happens. You cannot call the outer method on an instance of the inner class, since it is not a member of the inner class. You can only call the inner method, or a method inherited from Object.

Please use the correct Java™ format for identifiers, using “camel case”, not underscores, and start method names with lower-case letters. Please indent your code correctly; {} should only be on the same line for array initialisers. Please correct the compiler errors you can actually understand before you post code. Line 24, for example.