Originally posted by Megs Maquito:
if you have a static method in your class, that method can only be called by using the class name it is from, the dot operator and the method name...
This is how a static method
should be called, to make it clear that the method is static. However, a static method
can be called using a particular instance in place of the class name.
(Watch for this in the
SCJP exam. In particular, note that
Thread's static sleep method can be called through any Thread instance, but it acts on the
current thread.)