Java 8 also lets you define static methods in interfaces. An example from Java’s standard class library is java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleInfo‘s static String referenceKindToString(int ...

Here are three Java Hello World examples developers can use to get started on the new release:. Hello World with a console output; Hello World with a Java Swing component; Hello World with a static ...

According to the Java Enhancement Proposal 445: …these changes allow us to write Hello, World! with no access modifiers, no static modifiers, and no String[] parameter, so the introduction of these ...

Here is a quote from Absolute Java, 1st Ed, by Walter Savitch:"Note that with a static method, the class name serves the same purpose as a calling object. (It would be legal to create an object of ...