Specifications

Sun Services
Java™ Programming Language Module 7, slide 9 of 44
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Sun Services, Revision F
Class Methods
Static methods cannot access instance variables:
1 public class Count3 {
2 private int serialNumber;
3 private static int counter = 0;
4
5 public static int getSerialNumber() {
6 return serialNumber; // COMPILER ERROR!
7 }
8}