I have started learning Java language for Android Application developement.

As per my understanding based on static class, we cannot instantiate object of static class.

But why instantiation of static nested class object is allowed in following situaltion?

class EnclosingClass 
{     
      //...     
      class static StaticInnerClass 
      {         
          //...     
      } 
} 

Why we can create object of inner class if it is marked as static?

EnclosingClass.StaticInnerClass s = new EnclosingClass.StaticInnerClass()