Purpose of inner class in Java

The main advantages of a nested (inner) class are:

Non-static inner classes can hide a performance problem . They do have access to member fields on the enclosing class, but not directly, but via getters which are created automatically. This will be slower then just copying the members of the enclosing class to the inner class.

Q7)What are disadvantages of using inner classes?

Making Address and City as outer class exposes City to any of the Class . Making it an inner class of Address will make sure that its accessed using object of Address.