Nested classes are classes that are declared as members of other classes or scopes. Nesting classes is one way to better organize your code. For example, say you have a non-nested class (also known as ...

I have a class with a number of static inner classes. These inner classes have static data members, and I'd like to have all of these static data members get executed all at once, when the top-level ...

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.

w00t! I've just discovered the p0w4rZ of inner classes in Java, specifically for doing things in Swing. I was setting up a hierarchy of GUI objects, and was having problems calling a method attached ...