I thought inner classes could access the outer class variables/methods?

Question

I did read a number of topics discussing inner classes, and i was under the impression that an inner class has access to the variables and methods of the enclosing class. In

Answer 1

System.out.println(inner.a);

You are attempting to read a as if it is a property of you inner class, but it's not. You should define a method that will read the desired property of the outer class. So in your inner class, you should have:

 public String getA(){
     return a;
 }

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System.out.println(inner.getA());

This should work.