Inner classes

[Ferwed Kondos]

Inner classes cannot have static members of any kind? true or false

[John Stone]

true - if we consider declaration only
false - if we consider also inheritance (static member can be inherited)

[Thayarupan Raj]

But We can have static members in "Static Inner class" if enclosing class does not have any static/final member

public class Tests {
public static void main(String args[])
{
}
static class inner
{
static int s=10;
public static void rt()
{

}
}
}


[ September 30, 2007: Message edited by: John Kristin ]
[ September 30, 2007: Message edited by: John Kristin ]

[Ankith suresh]

Hi john
But We can have static members in "Static Inner class"
"if enclosing class does not have any static/final member" ???

What does
"if enclosing class does not have any static/final member" ???
meant???

[John Stone]

from Sun tutorial:

Terminology: Nested classes are divided into two categories: static and 
non-static. Nested classes that are declared static are simply called 
static nested classes. Non-static nested classes are called inner classes.

So, when I talked about inner classes, I always meant non-static nested-classes.