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Static methods belong to the class.

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Methods belong to the object, but static methods belong directly to the class.

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In this lesson, you will learn to create static methods.

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First thing's first hired count needs to be private.

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The only place that needs to update hired count is the constructor.

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The caller shouldn't be allowed to update it from Maine.

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This is a security risk.

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So make it private.

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Now, a normal method belongs to an object because methods belong to an object, you can only call them

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from the object like geotag get name.

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Now create a method named get hired, counts public and get hired counts and it will return the number

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of employees we hired.

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Do you see what's wrong with the code, the static variable belongs to the class, it does not belong

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to a particular object.

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But in order to call get hired count, you need to create an object of the employee class.

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In this case, I would have to create a new object of the employee class passing some random values

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for the purpose of calling get hired counts.

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All right, with that being said, accessing a static variable from an object doesn't make any sense.

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You should be able to call this method directly from the class.

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A static method belongs to the class.

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So you can call it directly from the class.

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Inside the employee class make the method static.

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And now we can call the method directly from the class.

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Java is even telling us to call it from the class.

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Employees don't get hired counts.

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And perfect.

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We're able to access the static variable directly from the class.

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It's also private, which means we don't have to worry about accidental updates inside men.

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That being said, a static method can only access static variables, I'm going to repeat this one more

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time.

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A static method can only access static variables.

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This begs the question, why can't a static method access fields paused the video and think about it.

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The answer is a static method belongs to a class and fields belong to an object.

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It's as simple as that.

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Let's say you tried to access this name from a static method.

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For clarity, I'm just going to use that this keyword.

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It's the same thing, but anyways, this points to the current object that's calling this method.

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So there's no object for this to point to, which is why job is going to tell you you cannot access

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in objects fields from a static context.

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Also, a static method can only access other static methods, take some time to really internalize the

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following two sentences.

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OK, why can't a static method access normal methods, pause the video and think about it?

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The answer is simple a static method belongs to a class and a normal method belongs to an object.

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Let's say you tried to access this thought, get name from a static method.

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This points to the current object calling get name, but you're not calling get hired count from an

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object, you're calling it from a class.

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So there is no object for this to point to.

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Job is going to tell you you can't access normal methods from a static context.

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It doesn't make any sense.

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So you understand these rules and you should be fine, a static method can only access static variables

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and it can only access other static methods.

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Here's a question for you.

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Why does everything in Maine have to be static?

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It doesn't make any sense to create an object of the main class.

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For example, the main method is the entry point of your application, the compiler wants to call the

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main method, but it doesn't want to have to create an object of the main class to do so.

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It just wants to call it from a static context for simplicity.

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It just wants to say mean that mean.

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All right, why do class variables in Maine need to be static?

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Remember, the first part of our rule, a static method can only access static variables.

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If I want to use scanner inside mean it needs to be static as well.

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If I remove the static key word, it's not going to work.

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Why do other methods and may need to be static, remember the second part of our role, a static method,

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can only access other static methods.

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I'm going to create a random void method in Maine, public void, do stuff.

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I'll try to call it from the main method, and it's not going to work.

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If I want to call this method for Maine, it needs to be static as well.

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Let's recap in this lesson, you learn to create static methods.

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Static methods belong to the class, so you can call them directly from the class type.

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And there are two things you should know about static methods a static method can only access static

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variables and a static method can only access other static methods.