when static initialization occurs

[Nick George]

consider, if you will, the following code:

 
public final class Team {

  public static Team team1=new Team("Loonies");
  public static Team team2=new Team("Dingbats");
  public static Team team3=new Team("Simpletons");
  public static Team team4=new Team("Wonkers");
  public static Team team5=new Team("Plonkers");
  public static Team melee=new Team("Melee");
 
  public static final List teams(){
    List list=new ArrayList();
    list.add(team1);
    list.add(team2);
    list.add(team3);
    list.add(team4);
    list.add(team5);
    list.add(melee);
    System.out.println(list);
    return list;
  } 
}

if teams is run multiple times, I receive the following output:

[null, null, null, null, null, null]
[Loonies, null, null, null, null, null]
[Loonies, Dingbats, null, null, null, null]
[Loonies, Dingbats, Simpletons, null, null, null]
[Loonies, Dingbats, Simpletons, Wonkers, null, null]
[Loonies, Dingbats, Simpletons, Wonkers, Plonkers, null]
[Loonies, Dingbats, Simpletons, Wonkers, Plonkers, Melee]

why does it take it sudurn' long to get it right?

[Ko Ko Naing]

Could you provide the whole program that runs the code that you gave above? I think the list should add the teams in order as specified once the method returns... I'm not quite sure why your teams() method behaves like this...

Providing more code snippets might help us to find out the details, I guess...

[Petr Blahos]

Let me guess. This is the missing part:

public final class Team {
 
  // [...]
 
  String teamName;
  Team(String s) {
  teams();
  teamName = s;
  }
  public String toString() {
  return teamName;
  }
  public static void main(String[]s) {
  Team.teams();
  }
}

;-)
I can reassure you, everything is working perfectly. It's
your core which is a bit unfortunate. The static variables
are initialized as soon as classloader loads the class. The
rest is explained in your signature.

P.

[Nick George]

check

[Ko Ko Naing]

Originally posted by Petr Blahos:
I can reassure you, everything is working perfectly. It's
your core which is a bit unfortunate. The static variables
are initialized as soon as classloader loads the class. The
rest is explained in your signature.

I got it as well...