Because it’s my bag, I’ve found that many Java developers aren’t aware of how to leverage anonymous classes. Indeed, they are an extremely handy feature, which can yield concise, but ...

The approach used in Java 8 isn’t just limited to Java itself though. Scala has historically implemented its lambda expressions by generating anonymous inner classes.

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.

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 ...

In the JDK 1.1 release, Sun introduced inner classes, a new feature of the Java language that permitted Java developers to create nested classes that had a special, private-visible relationship to the ...