Can a main method in Java return something?

Question

I went through an interview recently and they ask me two questions in core Java.

Q 1.

Can we write a java class with:

public s         


        

Answer 1

Yes, we can write main method with a return type other than void. This simply means that we can overload our main method. Some examples are

1. public static void main(String ... x){ }
2. public static int main(String []args){ }
3. public static void main(string array[]){ }

But, note here that the compiler will only know

public static void main(String []args){ }

If above method is not present it will not compile.