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Nure México
25,840 PointsWhat does Static stands for?
What is the purpose of declaring a method Static, I've heard that it's for eliminate inheritance in Java. But I don't have that really clear.
4 Answers

Craig Dennis
Treehouse TeacherI find this easiest to think of as a property of the blueprint, or class
, and not requiring an object
, or instance, to be used.
We'll do more with them in the near future.

Chris Shaw
26,650 PointsHi César,
Have a read of the following link which contains a lot more information than what I can put into a single reply.
http://beginnersbook.com/2013/05/static-vs-non-static-methods/
Hope that helps.

Axel McCode
13,869 PointsHi Cesar! After a quick google search for this question, I found this Stack Overflow post.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2649213/in-laymans-terms-what-does-static-mean-in-java
Take a look through the answers, It helped me better understand static methods/variables in Java, hope this helps you as well! :)