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Whats a static data element or method?

April 26, 2017Data element method static

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Whats a static data element or method?

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It’s a data element or method that is not associated with an individual class object, but rather with the class as a whole. This plays the role of a global variable. A good example is the static variable N in Nbody.java which counts the number of Body objects.