What are static methods?
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What are static methods?
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Methods declared with the keyword static as modifier are called static methods or class methods. They are so called because they affect a class as a whole, not a particular instance of the class. Static methods are always invoked without reference to a particular instance of a class.
The use of a static method suffers from the following restrictions:
- A static method can only call other static methods.
- A static method must only access static data.
- A static method cannot reference to the current object using keywords super or this.
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