what is use of static keyword in java code example
Example 1: static keyword in java
// example on static variable in java.
class EmployeeDetails
{
// instance variable
int empID;
String empName;
// static variable
static String company = "FlowerBrackets";
// EmployeeDetails constructor
EmployeeDetails(int ID, String name)
{
empID = ID;
empName = name;
}
void print()
{
System.out.println(empID + " " + empName + " " + company);
}
}
public class StaticVariableJava
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
EmployeeDetails obj1 = new EmployeeDetails(230, "Virat");
EmployeeDetails obj2 = new EmployeeDetails(231, "Rohit");
obj1.print();
obj2.print();
}
}
Example 2: java what is static
In the Java programming language, the keyword static indicates that the particular member belongs to a type itself,
rather than to an instance of that type.
This means that only one instance of that static member is created which is shared across all instances of the class.