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Message: [QUOTE="Lasse Reichstein Nielsen, post: 3010683"] My guess is that it's for consistency with the idea that an inner class (a non-static nested class) is not /one/ class, but one class /per instance/ of the outer class. Following that idea, everything you describe become necessary. You cannot have a static field shared by all the inner classes, since a static belongs to only one class[1]. /L [1] ... although you could implement it by implementing statics on the inner class as non-statics on instances of the outer class. THAT would be hackery, though. [/QUOTE]