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U got it...

Posted by Kishori Sharan on December 13, 2000 at 2:24 PM

Hi Chris
When you create a newB ( ) method in class A then it is valid to create an object of B in class A. When you inherit a class C from A then newB ( ) is inherited. But, when you call newB ( ) in C then at run time JVM has knowledge that you are calling newB ( ) which was inherited which, in fact, exists in A not in C. So while executing the code in herited newB ( ) all the access restrictions of class A is applied ( not for class C ) and that is why your solution worked. You may not be knowing this, but this is the most widely used approach to get an instance of an inner class. Create a method in top level class which returns an instance of inner class and make constructor of inner class private ( This is what you did ) . So, you are correct in your understanding.
Thanx
Kishori