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Eclipse: Many Class Files

I would like to know why I got like 30 ClassFiles in the "bin" folder for my Program.java program.

They are named as followed:

Testworks$1.class
Testworks$2.class
Testworks$3.class
Testworks$4.class

...

and there is one Testworks.class

When I generate my Program.jar file all 30 Testworks$X.class are copied inside.

Do I really need them and how can I exclude them?

Solution

  • These classes are anonymous inner classes. If you have used GUI programming,you might have noticed them. When you create listeners for events, you might do something like:-

    Button okBtn = new Button("Ok");
okBtn.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){//this is an anonymous inner class

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
   //your code here
  }
  ...
  ...

});

    This inner class has no explicit name, hence the compiler names it using the convention OuterClass$x.class. x is replaced by the number of inner class (for eg, 1, 2..etc)