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After using them a while I can’t help but feel that the hoops you’re forced to jump through when using anonymous classes are not worth it.
You end up with final all over the place and no matter what the code is more difficult to read than if you’d used a well named inner class.
So what are the advantages of using them? I must be missing something.
The advantage is that it’s an implementation of closures. It’s clunky, but it’s the best we’ve got in Java at the moment. In other words, you don’t have to create a new class just for the sake of preserving some state which you’ve already got as a local variable somewhere.
I have an article comparing C# and Java closures, and why they’re useful in the first place, which might help.