Inner classes, which became available with Java 1.1, come in four flavors: Static member classes Member classes Local classes Anonymous classes Let’s take a quick look at each in turn.

If you’ve read my Java 101 tutorial introducing static classes and inner classes, you should be familiar with the basics of working with nested classes in Java code. In this associated tip, I ...

As such, you can incorporate the functional Consumer interface into your code simply by creating a class that implements java.util.function.Consumer, or by coding an inner class. Here is the Java code ...

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 ...