Re: Have a problem with static

Sreenivas wrote:


In this case, yeah they do pretty much the same thing.
BUT....
with a static BLOCK you could do fancier things:
static
{
    String j = "India"
    for (int i = 0; i<j.length(); j++)
    {
        System.out.println("You can only do this sort of thing in a
static block!");
    }
    try
    {
        Connection c = new DBConnection("Some:db:url");
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        System.out.println("Error creating connection!");
    }
}

....Ok, not the greatest example, but it illustrates that you can have
other blocks of code inside a static initializer. The loop and the try/
catch cannot be done with the style in (2) in your examples.
Personally, I try to avoid static initializers when possible, and do
that work in constructors.