Does the Java ClassLoader load inner classes?

Question

If I have a inner class declaration such as:

Class A {
    public static class B {
    }
}

followed by:

Class impl         


        

Answer 1

Inner classes i.e class B cannot exist outside the parent class. You need to construct the parent class i.e class A first.

and if you remove static from your inner class i.e for non-static inner class , you need to pass the parent class in during construction of the inner class.

Object a = Class.forName("A").newInstance();    //object of outer class

//object of inner class
Object b = implClass.getDeclaredConstructor(new Class[] { a.getClass() })
        .newInstance(new Object[] { a });