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

It is even possible, though highly discouraged, to write:

Math m = null;
double d = m.sin(m.PI/4.0);
System.out.println("This should be close to 0.5 " + (d*d));

This is because static accesses look at the declared type of the variable, and never actually dereference it.