The first question, where to usestatic methods in applets:
1) Not very often. It's not advisable for newcomers to start using static methods right away, because they're normally used in the wrong context. Static methods only share one object. If you have ten instances of one static method, they all share the same object.
2) You have your second question correct. You DON'T HAVE to do this, but it's good programming practice.
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