What is the difference between a static and a non-static inner class

A non-static inner class may have object instances that are associated with instances ofthe class's outer class. A static inner class does not have any object instances.

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Dhananjay Singh

Sep 12th, 2005

The static inner classes can be accessed with out creating it's objects or we can access static inner classes with direct class name but in the case of non-static inner classes access we have to create the object of that class.

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Jul 4th, 2011

A non-static inner class may have object instances that are associated with instances of the class's outer class. A static inner class does not have any object instances.