Object Oriented Programming Through Java by Pearson

5.24 Class Objects and Methods

5.14 Inner Classes

Class within a Class – Inner Class: Inner class is one of the techniques provided by Java to

achieve reusability of the code. Inner class means a class containing another class or more than

one class. Inner classes cannot be declared as static. There are four kinds of inner classes:

• Member class: This is defined just like a variable of a class. It has the same access speci-

fiers as that of variables.

• Static member class: Though it is defined inside a class with keyword static, it is actu-

ally outside the class. To refer to the static inner class from a class outside the containing

class, use ...