static block

[Urs Waefler]

Hi

This is my code:

class B {

static {
B x = new B ();
}


public static void main (String [] args) {


}
}

I do not properly understand static block. Could anybody give me some hints. What is it?

Regards
Urs

[Campbell Ritchie]

If I understand your question correctly, what you have is called a static initialiser. There is discussion on the Ranch in several places, this, and this, which is maybe less helpful, being two recent examples I found with a search.

[suji kumar]

static block will be executed when the class gets loaded...

[Murad Iqbal]

Yup, the code in a static initializer block is executed by the virtual machine when the class is loaded.