Why is it preferable to call a static method statically from within an instance of the method's clas
- by javanix
If I create an instance of a class in Java, why is it preferable to call a static method of that same class statically, rather than using this.method()?
I get a warning from Eclipse when I try to call static method staticMethod() from within the custom class's constructor via this.staticMethod().
public MyClass() { this.staticMethod(); }
vs
public MyClass() { MyClass.staticMethod(); }
Can anyone explain why this is a bad thing to do? It seems to me like the compiler should already have allocated an instance of the object, so statically allocating memory would be unneeded overhead.
