This works because the two are closely related. In Java, nested classes are categorized as either static member classes or inner classes. Inner classes are non-static member classes, local classes ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java Scanner class provides methods that take String input and convert that String into any ...

Notice how the output includes only the first String the Java Scanner read. The rest of the text is ignored. This is because the Scanner class tokenizes the input String based on any whitespace ...

If you’ve read my Java 101 tutorial introducing static classes and inner classes, you should be familiar with the basics of working with nested classes in Java code. In this associated tip ...

There are two types of nested classes: static nested classes and inner classes. Written by David Petersheim, Contributor Feb. 3, 2005 at 8:00 a.m. PT A nested class is defined inside another class.