when to use of static class ?

[Ayan Dutta]

Hi,
can anybody tell me the proper use of a static class .what can be the advantage ? first of all when it is required ? can anybody give me some real lif examples or use of it in Java Source cose itself ?
Regards,
Ayan

[Garrett Rowe]

What do you mean by static class? What do you think the static keyword means?

[Mike Cole]

I dont know what a static class is.

Maybe you mean static functions and members?

If you have a function that does not to keep track of own internal variables and gets everything that it needs to fullfill the request via parameters then you can make it static...

public static int sum(int no1, int no2)
  {
    return no1+no2;
  }

For such functions theres no need to make an object.

(As far as i understand, so use this info with care )

[Jan Groth]

static classes are special inner classes.

see here

[Jan Groth]

i leave the link to the above article, but i find the described technique (seperate debugging code from live code) really weired, unusual and not recommendable.

:-)

jan

[Ayan Dutta]

That's right, Jan . I was also going through that link and same thing came into my mind also
Any other example ?
Ayan