Eclipse warning about synthetic accessor for private static nested classes in Java?

Question

My coworker suggested making several of the Eclipse code-formatting and warning settings to be more rigorous. The majority of these changes make sense, but I get this one we

Answer 1

You can not instantiate InnerClass from WeirdInnerClassJavaWarning. It's private, JVM wouldn't let you to, but the Java language (for some reason) would.

Therefore, javac would make an additional method in InnerClass that would just return new InnerClass(), therefore permitting you to create InnerClass instances from WeirdInnerClassJavaWarning.

i don't think you really need to get rid of it because the perfomance drop would be inmeasureably tiny. However, you can if you really want to.