static method in class Thread

[Lawrance Miao]

static methods in class Thread like sleep(), currentThread(),when we write them in our code, they could know the running thread object. How ??
Why a static method can access an object of its own class ??

[ramprasad madathil]

currentThread(), sleep() etc contain native method calls to perform their respective functions. That's y there are static (they dont access any instance variable or methods).

Iam not sure I understand ur second question,
>Why a static method can access an object of its own class ??
well, why not, if the class has a stic variable of same type as the class, why not ?

look at code below.

 
  class SomeClass
  {
       static SomeClass sClass;
       static void acessShowStatically
       {
          sClass.show();
       }
       void show()
       {
          //do something
       }
  }

though u would want to take a good hard look at ur design to decide if theresnt a better way to do this.

tx,
ram.

[Lawrance Miao]

thx ram . I think I get it.