What is the proper way of accessing static fields in Java?

Question

I just started learning Java and I wrote a class to test using static fields. Everything works fine but in Eclipse I see an icon which when hovered comes out as: \"The stati

Answer 1

Static fields and methods are not belong to a specific object, but to a class, so you should access them from the class, and not from an object:

CarCounter.getCounter()

and not

a.getCounter()