Achieve Syntax Brevity with Anonymous Classes and Instance Initializers
September 15, 2009
2:09 am
The first listing here, which may look more familiar, is considerably longer than the second listing, even though they’re essentially equivalent. Listing 1.List friends = new ArrayList();friends.add(“Ben”);friends.add(“Kiran”);friends.add(“….”); You can replace all the code in Listing 1 with an anonymous class that uses an instance initializer as shown in Listing 2.