Sanjana Shetty

• Feb 7th, 2007

 

There is only one copy of a static variable to serve all objects of the class, not one per object. It is allocated when the class is first loaded. Staic methods are class methods. All static methods are automatically final. static methods work without any of this object. static methods are limited to calling other static methods in the class and to using only static variables. They can call instance methods only if they use their own object references -- not rely on this .