Re: To static or not to static
Are Nybakk wrote:
Wojtek wrote:
If I have a class such as:
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public class MyClass
{
public MyClass()
{
super();
}
public void printThis(String parm)
{
System.out.println(parm);
}
}
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I can run the method like this:
(new MyClass()).printThis("Hello World");
Since printThis only uses passed parameters, I could also have this:
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public class MyClass
{
public MyClass()
{
super();
}
public static void printThis(String parm)
{
System.out.println(parm);
}
}
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and then I can run the method like this:
MyClass.printThis("Hello World");
Both ways are valid, and functionally equivalent. The main difference
being that the first way instantiates a class whereas the second does
not.
Thoughts?
Well.. I havn't really used much static methods/fields myself, but they
can be accessed accross packages. You might not always want that?
That has to do with access specification: private, package-private (no
modifier), protected or public. Static or not doesn't affect package visibility.
Anyway, such a method as you show here should perhaps be in it's [sic] own
class (like the methods in the java.lang.Math class).
In this case, they were. They were in their own class, "MyClass".
--
Lew
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