What is Static Modifier and Class?

There may be times in your program where the class objects need to share information – in such cases you can specify one or more class variable and methods that are shared among the objects. When you declare a method in a class static you do not need an instance of the class.

You can use static methods to access other static members of the class, however, you cannot use the static method to access any non-static variables or methods. A class containing static members is called as a static class. There is no static identifier for the class.

Example:

public Class MyClass{
	public static String prop1;
	public static method1(){
		prop1 = “Hello”;
}
public static void main(String args[]){
		MyClass.prop1 = “Bye”;
MyClass.method1();
}
}	

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