Consider you have the following class

public class OuterClass {
    ...

    private static class InnerClass {
         int foo;
         int bar;
    }
}

I think I've read somewhere (but not the official Java Tutorial) that if I would declare the static member classes attributes private, the compiler had to generate some sort of accessor methods so that the outer class can actually access the static member class's (which is effectively a package-private top level class) attributes.

Any ideas on that?