When we go for Static member and Nonstatic member in java?
yadhu 0 Newbie Poster
JamesCherrill 4,733 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
static = one value, shared for all instances of the class
non-static = every instance has its own values
jwenting 1,889 duckman Team Colleague
static is the equivalent of a global variable in Java.
You usually want to avoid it, as it violates object oriented principles.
Mostly you'll see it used for constants, and sometimes utility functions that effectively exist outside of the context of any class instance.
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