Loading an inner class without loading a closing class

Question

I was a little confused when the inner class (not static) loads jvm. It depends on the outer class. or can it be separately loaded without loading an external class?

Answer 1

Given that the inner class has a field with a reference to an instance of the enclosing class, I don’t see how it can be loaded without loading the closing class.

A static nested class may be different, since it really does not depend on its enclosing class.