Description Nick Collier 2005-10-28 18:32:23 EDT

The eclipse compiler compiles an anonymous inner of an inner class as if the
anonymous inner class was part of the enclosing outer class. For example,

public class Foo {
	
	class Bar {
		public ActionListener doSomething() {
			return new ActionListener() {
				public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
					System.out.println("foo");
				}
				
			};
		}
	}
	
	public void foo() {}

}

compiles as 3 classes: Foo.class, Foo$Bar.class and Foo$1.class where
Foo$1.class is the anonymous inner class. By contrast javac compiles Foo.class,
Foo$Bar.class, and Foo$Bar$1.class which is, I think, the correct behavior.

This difference in the class name causes problem with XML serialization tools
such as XStream because the eclipse and javac name the class differently.