Re: Question about static methods

From: Anthony Borla (ajborla_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 01/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:30:54 GMT

"AckbarJedi" <AckbarDEATHJediTO@hotSPAMmail.com> wrote in message
news:400395a6_3@corp.newsgroups.com...
> Given this very basic program:
>
<SNIP>
>
> I'd like to be able to not have to make the method
> doStuff() static and would like to simply call it "pubic
> void doStuff" but I get an error message telling me I can
> not call a non-static class from a static method (since
> main is static). Is there a way to get around this so that
> doStuff() can still be non-static?
>

The following will do the trick:

public class Blah
{
      public static void main (String [] args)
     {
          Blah blah1 = new Blah(2), blah2 = new Blah(6);
          blah1.doStuff();
          blah2.doStuff();
      }

      public Blah(int number) { this.number = number; }

      public void doStuff()
     {
         // ...
         System.out.println(number);
         // ...
     }

     private int number;
}

I strongly urge you to complete the tutorials at the Sun Java site:

    http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html

I hope this helps.

Anthony Borla