Starting with JDK 1.1, Java provided the ability to create nested classes. A nested class is defined inside another class. There are two types of nested classes: static nested classes and inner ...

How can we debug method calls that are not part of our own source code, say a call to JButton.setEnabled()? Java provides us with anonymous inner classes, which come in quite handy for this problem.

I was poking around in the codebase I just started working with, and found an interface with the following definitions: public static final Class INTEGER_CLASS = (new Integer(0)).getClass(); public ...