Static member classes

We can declare a class static by using the static keyword . A class can be declared static only if it is a nested class. It does not require any reference of the outer class. The property of the static class is that it does not allows us to access the non-static members of the outer class.

A “static class” is an inner class that doesn’t require an instance of its enclosing class , which has nothing to do with sharing application-wide data.26 Şub 2013

Static Method Static methods are the methods in Java that can be called without creating an object of class . They are referenced by the class name itself or reference to the Object of that class.