BTW, the terminology you are looking for is that the "inline" inner class as you put is called an anonymous inner class while the inner class that is defined on its own (not at the point of a method call) but still inside the outer class is usually just called an inner class but named inner class would also work too. Both of these have been available as in Java from the very beginning.
As for why, it is just a matter of taste. It's sometimes a bit more concise to just define an anonymous inner class inline, particularly if the inner class code needs access to variables defined in the calling method. With an anonymous inner class you just have to define the variables or parameters as final and they can be access in the code of the inner class. With a named inner class you have to define extra member variable on the inner class to hold those variables and probably a constructor that accepts them. If you find that it results in a ton of code inside the inner class that all indented, you could just move all that code into a method on the outer class. The code in the inner class can access methods and methods of the outer class. You can even reference methods and methods of the outer class that have the same name as something in the inner class by using the syntax: MyOuter.this.outerMethodCall(). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
