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As the static keyword is used for accessing fields and methods without an instantiated class, it can be used to declare constants for use in other classes. These variables will remain constant across every instantiation of the class. By convention, static variables are always ALL_CAPS and use unders...

Static gives a method or variable storage that is not allocated for each instance of the class. Rather, the static variable is shared among all class members. Incidentally, trying to treat the static variable like a member of the class instance will result in a warning: public class Apple { pu...

Static variables and methods are not part of an instance, There will always be a single copy of that variable no matter how many objects you create of a particular class. For example you might want to have an immutable list of constants, it would be a good idea to keep it static and initialize it j...