Anon inner classes + final vars

Ive always taken it for granted that anon inner classes can access outside variables only if they are static.
Googling this yields about the same information but no good explaination.
can someone kindly explain why the JVM wants this restriction? i suppose it must have something to do with the way objects are handled internally.
ill give dukes!

The "final" restriction only applies to variables within a method which you want to use outside the method. I would assume it is down to
1) The variable goes out of scope when the method ends.
2) init().field and init.AnonActionListener().field would actually be different variables, changing init().field would not be replicated to init.AnonActionListener().field. This would be very confusing.
�8.1.3 does not give any reason for this.

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  • Why method local inner class can use final variable rather than....

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  • Why we are making a variable as final in method inner class ?

    Why we are making the variable as final (method inner class) while we are accessing the method variable in inner class ?
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       3:   dup
       4:   aload_0
       5:   iload_1
       6:   invokespecial   #3; //Method InnerExample$1."<init>":(LInnerExample;I)V
       9:   astore_2
       10:  new     #4; //class Thread
       13:  dup
       14:  aload_2
       15:  invokespecial   #5; //Method java/lang/Thread."<init>":(Ljava/lang/Runnable;)V
       18:  invokevirtual   #6; //Method java/lang/Thread.start:()V
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  • Inaccessible with local variable(non-final) via method local inner class

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    [email protected] wrote:
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  • AIC (Anon. Inner Classes) usage.

    Where else we can use AICs ?
    THanks
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    Often you'll use AIC's when hooking up listeners. For example:
    public class ColorDemo {
    // code snipped away
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                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                    changeColor();
        private void changeColor(){
            // code goes here
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