Re: Java language question: static classes ?

[mlorton]

>      Thanks that is the correct answer for "static inner class".
>      
>      However a static inner class 
>      cannot have it self a static inner class.

Yes, it can.  Why couldn't it?  The innerness of a static inner class
is purely a naming thing.

>      Static inner class
....
>      2) cannot refer to any member or method belonging to the outer
>        class.

To any *non-static* member or method, you mean.  And of course, it can
refer to any member or method, through a variable of the appropriate
type.

M.