Accessing a static variable via an object reference in Java

Question

Why can we access a static variable via an object reference in Java, like the code below?

public class Static {
    private static String x = \"Static variab         


        

Answer 1

The non-static member is instance member. The static member(class wide) could not access instance members because, there are no way to determine which instance owns any specific non-static members.

The instance object could always refers to static members as it belongs to class which global(shared) to its instances.