Java methods

Class methods are methods that are called on the class itself, not on a specific object instance . The static modifier ensures implementation is the same across all class instances. Many standard built-in classes in Java (for example, Math) come with static methods (for example, Math.

A class’s members include all the members declared in the class, along with all members (except constructors and finalizers) declared in all classes in its inheritance hierarchy . Private members in base classes are inherited but are not accessible from derived classes.

The number of methods that may be declared by a class or interface is limited to 65535 by the size of the methods_count item of the ClassFile structure (§4.1). Note that the value of the methods_count item of the ClassFile structure does not include methods that are inherited from superclasses or superinterfaces.

A class method is a method that is bound to a class rather than its object . It doesn’t require creation of a class instance, much like staticmethod. The difference between a static method and a class method is: Static method knows nothing about the class and just deals with the parameters.