STATIC KEYWORD

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STATIC KEYWORD

In a class we can have 2 types of members.

i.  Instance members – represents attributes and behavior of individual objects.

ii.    Class members – represents attributes and behavior of the whole class.

To understand where we need to use static, see the diagram below-

v  By default all the members of a class are instance members. In order to associate a member of a class static keyword is used.

v  static denotes execution of whole class.

Syntax of compiling –

javac NameOfSourceFile

example - 

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