The most common use of inner classes is as event handlers for GUI-based applications. These classes are usually declared anonymously and as needed for each component that requires an event handler.

Next we’ll look at inner classes, which are non-static member classes, local classes, or anonymous classes. You’ll learn how to work with all three inner class types.

Anonymous inner classes allow surgical debugging for one specific instance. Norbert Ehreke is a senior development lead at Impetus Unternehmensberatung GmbH, a consulting company in Frankfurt ...