non-static can't be referenced from a static context

[meme123]

Hi,
I'm getting the error msg, "non-static can't be referenced from a static context", on my Readfile... what is the simplest way of fixing it? Thanks.

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import javax.mail.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

public class Bulkloademail {

public static void main(String[] args)
{

try {
String strMethod = "sendMail";
String fileResults = "Results.csv";
String fileValues = "Values.csv";
String strSender = "xxx.com";
String recp[] = new String[1];
String body;

recp[0] = "xxx.com";

String file[] = new String[2];

file[0] = "E_WORK_DIST_CRIT_060713_1_Error.csv";
file[1] = "E_WORK_DIST_CRIT_060713_1.csv";

String strresult = Readfile("E_WORK_DIST_CRIT_060713_1_Error.csv");
body = body + strresult;

String strSubject = "ECHS - Bulkload Reports ";
String strMessage = body;

TestMail mail = new TestMail();
mail.postMail(recp,strSubject,strMessage,strSender,file);

}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Sendmail exception");
}

}

public String Readfile(String file)
{
String content;
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
int x= fis.available();
byte b[]= new byte[x];
fis.read(b);
content = new String(b);
return content;

}

}

[Ezzaral]

Make the method static.

[meme123]

How do I do that? As you can tell, I'm very new to Java. Thanks!

[Ezzaral]

public static String Readfile(String file)

[satya5321]

or else create an instance of

Bulkloademail class and call the method.