Is usage of anonymous classes in Java considered bad style or good?

Question

I know anonymous classes save typing when it comes to implementing Listener and similar stuff. They try to be a replacement for some usages of closures.

But what doe

Answer 1

My opinion is anonymous classes makes the code less readable. For implementing listeners anonymous classes are useful. For developing a GWT application anonymous classes are the better choice. For these cases, if we are not using anonymous classes then the number of lines of code will increase.