PPT Slide

public class Test {

public void sayHello() {

System.out.println (“Hello”);

}

public static void main (String arg[]) {

sayHello(); // WRONG!

}

}//class Test

Thus, the error of making a “static reference to a method” might be understood as a problem of ambiguity.

We have not told Java which of the many possible instances of class Test we intend to call “sayHello()” on.

Only one

Potentially

many