Question

I’m currently creating an explicit reference to this in the outer class so that I have a name to refer to in the anonymous inner class. Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

I just found this recently. Use OuterClassName.this.

class Outer {     void foo() {         new Thread() {             public void run() {                 Outer.this.bar();             }         }.start();     }     void bar() {         System.out.println('BAR!');     } } 

Updated If you just want the object itself (instead of invoking members), then Outer.this is the way to go.