Question on Anonymous Inner class !

Can an Anonymous Inner class implement or extend any thing?
I feel no .. if yes can anyone give an example please..

An example: the anonymous inner class in u extends Thread.
$ cat u.java
class u {
public static void main(String a[]) {
Thread t = new Thread ( ) {
public void run() {
System.out.println(getClass().getName());
t.start();
$ javac u.java
$ java u
u$1
$
The same idea but with the Runnable interface (and not class)
$ cat u.java
class u {
public static void main(String a[]) {
Thread t = new Thread ( new Runnable ( ) {
public void run() {
System.out.println(getClass().getName());
t.start();
$ java u
u$1

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Sorry to be so thick, but I thought that the code did that already. Apparently it doesn't. In other words, how would the code invoke the override foof()? I should be clearer:
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Trying to use super class's methods from an anonymous inner class

Hi all,
I have one class with some methods, and a second class which inherits from the first. The second class contains a method which starts up a thread, which is an anonymous inner class. Inside this inner class, I want to call a method from my first class. How can I do this?
If I just call the method, it will use the second class's version of the method. However, if I use "super," it will try to find that method in the Thread class (it's own super class) and complain.
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Classes frequently call the un-overridden versions of methods from their superclasses. That's that the super keyword is for, if I'm not mistaken.You're not mistaken about the keyword, but you're not calling the superclass method from a subclass. Your anonymous inner class is not a subtype of TopLevel. It's a subtype of Thread.
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~

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/* begin quote
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The interface class is named (doHelloWorld) so it's not really anonymous.
But the class is not declared; there's no class keyword.
Is there a formal name for this construction?
It seems like a hybrid of named and anonymous implementation.
I guess the ability to mix class declaration, instantiation, method declaration, etc in one statement is powerful but just hard for beginner to understand when to use.
Sigh, three ways to do same thing. This 'hybrid' form is actually harder to understand than other ways.
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Stanley.

The interface class is named (doHelloWorld) so it's
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My question: Why can I access fullNamesArr in other
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Suppose an inner class created in a method:
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Aurelious wrote:
JoachimSauer wrote:
Because you can't refer to the argument of a method once the method call is completed (since the method argument lives on the stack).Why does that matter? If the parameter is of a primitive type, the object will get a copy of it anyway. If the parameter is not primitive, then the value on the stack will be a reference to the argument and not the argument-object itself. In either case, it should then be safe to modify the value after the method returns, as it will either be the primitive copy or a copy of a reference to the object which is itself not on the stack, so the field referenced by the object is still valid either way.
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It seems this thread has not changed and this makes me think that the OP posted bug report and now is waiting for some result. But I am more curious what will be the correct behaviour, how should this be implemented. Let's see what we have:
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2. In the overrided version of run() we need to use a variable name that can be specified from outside. I say 'variable' because it can differ in different instances of the class that are created in each call to the go(String) method. It must be instance variable since run() accepts no parameters.
3.I see three ways to pass this variable:
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4.As we know in any of the above ways the instance variable will be initialized after the super() call and thus it will not be set in the call to run() method.
I am with DrLaszloJamf in reply 3 and think that this case is an example of this statement.
I would like to see OP's vision of the correct behaviour and the order of things that should happen.
Thanks for sharing your ideas
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