Q: When would you create static methods as opposed to instance methods? I understand that static methods allow you to use those methods without having to create an instance of that class, and that ...
June 6, 2001— At Tuesday’s “Effective Programming with Java Technology” conference session (TS-2425), Joshua Bloch, senior staff engineer from Sun Microsystems, presented some powerful, but not well ...
Here is a quote from Absolute Java, 1st Ed, by Walter Savitch:<BR>"Note that with a static method, the class name serves the same purpose as a calling object. (It would be legal to create an object of ...