S & B Book - Inner Classes

[Murali Kakarla]

In S&B book, page 639 it has been mentioned that: "a regular inner class can't have static declarations of any kind."

But following code having final static field in an inner class compiles fine!

class Outer {
  class Inner {
    static final int x = 3;
   }
}

Have I misunderstood something or it is an error in book itself?

Murali...
SCJP 5 Aspirant

[Justin Seconi]

Odds are that the book is referring to static method definitions. All static methods must be defined in a top-level class (or a static nested class, which for most purposes is a top-level class).

Edit: Additionally, static-nested classes can't be defined within regular inner classes. neither can non-final members.

Looks like the only static declaration allowed within an inner class is a final member variable.
[ July 11, 2007: Message edited by: Justin Searls ]