What is the difference between instance variables and non local variables

[Vijay Tyagi]

the KB book says
Instance variables can be public,private,protected,default,final,transient
They can't be abstract,static,strictfp,synchronized,native

Non local variables can be public,private,protected,default,final,transient,static, volatile

What are non local variables ?

[Campbell Ritchie]

Don't know. Maybe instance fields and static fields.

[pete stein]

Vijay Tyagi wrote:
the KB book says
Instance variables can be public,private,protected,default,final,transient
They can't be abstract,static,strictfp,synchronized,native

Non local variables can be public,private,protected,default,final,transient,static, volatile

What are non local variables ?

It seems to me that non-local variables is the bigger pot that contains both instance variables and non-instance variables -- any variables that are not local to a block -- but of course I could be wrong.

[Rob Spoor]

I agree with the both of you. Which brings up an important omission in the first statement: "Instance variables can be public,private,protected,default,final,transient". They can also be volatile. Static is the only difference between instance variables and non-local variables - because static makes them class variables and no longer instance variables.