This example introduces top-level class C with static field f, static method m(), a static initializer, and static member class D. Notice that D is a member of C.

Method is a set of statements which defines certain actions. But method has a type defined along with the method name depending on type of value returned from the method. Return cannot be also not ...

After reading this section, check out Method References in Java 8 (Toby Weston, February 2014) for more insight into method references in bound and unbound non-static method contexts.