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Is there any way to access caller-scoped variables from an anonymous inner class in Java? Here's the sample code to understand what I need: public Long getNumber(final String type, final String refNumber, final Long year) throws ServiceException { Long result = null; try { Session session = PersistenceHelper.getSession(); session.doWork(new Work() { public void execute(Connection conn) throws SQLException { CallableStatement st = conn.prepareCall("{ CALL PACKAGE.procedure(?, ?, ?, ?) }"); st.setString(1, type); st.setString(2, refNumber); st.setLong(3, year); st.registerOutParameter(4, OracleTypes.NUMBER); st.execute(); result = st.getLong(4) ; } }); } catch (Exception e) { log.error(e); } return result; } The code is in a DAO service class. Obviously it doesn't compile, because it asks that result be final, if it is -- it doesn't compile because I try to modify a final var. I'm bound to JDK5. Other than dropping the doWork() altogether, is there a way to set the result value from within doWork() ?

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