So I have been taking learning java very slowly for the past 7 weeks, and I have been watching thenewbostons tutorials along with reading a few books. In both the book and the newboston tutorials, they say that they will explain what static means later. I dont know if they do eventually explain it, but I want to know as soon as I can, what does static mean?
You couldn't just google that? But instead you post it on a forum for bukkit plugin development... https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/classvars.html
@dotJar1 In short, static objects are objects that are the same for all instance of the same class. So for example, lets say I had the following class Code: public class Class{ public static Object anything = new Ojbect(); public boolean areTheSame(){ return new Class().anything == this.anything; } } What this does is create a new object for all instances for "class". The method "areTheSame" is meant to prove that the "anything" is exactly the same for all instance of "Class". Some other things about static objects are that they don't get cleaned by the JGC (Java garbage collector), meaning you have to remember to manually set each value to null if you don't want to waste memory (especially for Bukkit, since reloads don't handle static objects.).
