Re: what is difference between Class variables and Instance variables?


<rahul8143@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> hello,
> what is difference between Class variables and Instance variables?
>

Instance variables belong to the object instance. They're the fields of the
object. Class variables belong to the class as a whole--they're static
variables. I recommend Roedy's definitions here:

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/instancevariable.html or if you're up to it the
JLS definition here
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/typesValues.doc.html#28536

Cheers,
Matt Humphrey matth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.iviz.com/


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