What is difference between Top Level Class and Super Class?

[Deepak Mula]

In the ejb core specifications document in many places for defining rules of a bean they have mentioned 2 points(almost for all beans)

1. The class must be a top level class.

2.The session bean class may have superclasses and/or superinterfaces.

by reading second point I got confused about first point. I dont know what is difference Top Level Class and Super Class.

Can any body explain?

Thanks ............
Deepak.

[Balaji Ramalingam]

According to my understanding, top level class will not have any super class.

Where as super class can have another super class.

hope it helps.

[Vijaya Raghava]

Top-level classes can only have public, abstract, and final modifiers, and it is also possible to not define any class modifiers at all.

private, protected, and static modifiers cannot be used when declaring
top-level classes.

More than one top-level class can be defined in a Java source file, but there can be AT MOST ONE public top-level class declaration.

Most importantly a TOP LEVEL CLASS' NAME MUST MATCH WITH THE FILE NAME. OTHERWISE THE COMPILER WILL COMPLAIN ABOUT THE SAME.

Now you can understand what is a super class....

Regards,
Vijaya Raghava

[Deepak Mula]

Hi,
Thank you all, now I am clear Top level class is non inner class and super class is a normal super class...

Thanks,
Deepak.....