inner classes

[Abdul Latif]

can we make an instance of an inner class outside the class in which we have the inner class.
please explain in details

[Jose Botella]

Why not giving it a try before?
Anyway...

class  Containing {
class Inner {};
static class Nested {}; 
}
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(new Containing().new Inner());
System.out.println(new Containing.Nested());
}
}

[Ragu Sivaraman]

Originally posted by Jose Botella:
[B]Why not giving it a try before?
Anyway...

class  Containing {
class Inner {};
static class Nested {}; 
}
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(new Containing().new Inner());
System.out.println(new Containing.Nested());
}
}

[/B]

Also, if Test extends containing
we can call class Inner() directly from an instance method in Test without new Containing() construct, (coz Test inherits all the members from containing

Ragu

[Jose Botella]

Similarly we could use new Nested() within a static method of the subclass.