Overloading, Overriding, Runtime Types and Object Orientation - Local Classes

• may be declared within a block of code

    class Outer {
        void display() {
            class Local {           
                // body of Local class
            }
        }
    }

• the compiled name of the above Local class is: Outer$1$Local.class
• local inner classes are not class members and are not tied to an instance of the enclosing class
• as they are not class members, they cannot be instantiated outside of the code block in which they are declared by using the class as a reference ie new Outer.new Local(); won't work
• they may not be declared private, public, protected, or static. May be declared final
• they may access static and non-static members of the enclosing class
• they may only access final variables or parameters of the enclosing code block

Example Code

• TestLocalInner.java