Because it’s my bag, I’ve found that many Java developers aren’t aware of how to leverage anonymous classes. Indeed, they are an extremely handy feature, which can yield concise, but expressive code ...

📌 What is an Anonymous Class? An anonymous class is a local inner class without a name. It's used when you need to create a one-time-use subclass or implementation of an interface or abstract class.

Anonymous inner classes in Java are used to create one-time-use subclasses or implement interfaces without explicitly defining a separate class. They are commonly used for event handling, callbacks, ...

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How can we debug method calls that are not part of our own source code, say a call to JButton.setEnabled()? Java provides us with anonymous inner classes, which come in quite handy for this problem.