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.

static – Java’s main method is static, which means no instances need to be created beforehand to invoke it. void – Some programming languages return a zero or 1 to indicate the main method has run ...

Key Points: Static Methods in Java: In Java, static methods belong to the class itself rather than to instances of the class. Kotlin doesn't have a direct concept of static methods, but @JvmStatic ...

The next class, Employee, is a contrived example of a class in which the extensible class’s constructor calls an overridable method (setSalaryRange()). Employee.java ...