Why must jUnit's fixtureSetup be static?

Question

I marked a method with jUnit\'s @BeforeClass annotation, and got this exception saying it must be static. What\'s the rationale? This forces all my init to be on static fiel

Answer 1

To resolve this issue just change the method

public void setUpBeforeClass 

to

public static void setUpBeforeClass()

and all that are defined in this method to static.