Annonymous Inner classes in Java and Garbage collection

Unmesh -- What memory do you think is being "leaked", i.e., not reclaimed?
Are you concerned about failure to reclaim a _class_ or an _instance_ (and
of what class)? I don't see that anonymous inner classes pose any
particular new problem. Note that while, in _concept_, you get a new
anonymous class for each enclosing _instance_, in practice the class exists
just once, with no statics (by design of the language feature), and an
instance refers to an instance of the outer class. Does this help answer
the question?

-- Eliot Moss
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