Beginner Question: static construct

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Sathyaish - 12 Mar 2007 17:08 GMT

Sorry, I haven't been reading any book on Java lately for paucity of
time. Please educate me on this simple issue. What's this construct?

static
{
/* some code */
}

What's it called?

What does it do? I can guess that it declares a section of code as
static, as in class specific rather than instance specific, but I am
not sure. Secondly, what is the implication of having such a construct?

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Daniel Pitts - 12 Mar 2007 19:59 GMT

> Sorry, I haven't been reading any book on Java lately for paucity of
> time. Please educate me on this simple issue. What's this construct?
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> static, as in class specific rather than instance specific, but I am
> not sure. Secondly, what is the implication of having such a construct?

It lets you do things like this:
class MyStatics {
public static final int MY_VALUE;
static {
MY_VALUE = 3;
}
}

Its called static initializers, and what that means is that this is
code that is executed when the class is loaded.

Hope this helps,
Daniel.

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Sathyaish - 13 Mar 2007 12:21 GMT

Thanks very much, Daniel.

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