What is the gain from declaring a method as static

Question

I\'ve recently been looking through my warnings in Eclipse and come across this one:

Answer 1

Well, the Eclipse documentation says about the warning in question:

Method can be static

When enabled, the compiler will issue an error or a warning for methods which are private or final and which refer only to static members

I think it pretty much says it all. If the method is private and final and only refers to static members, the method in question might just as well be declared static and by this, make evident that we only intend to access static content from it.

I honestly don't think there is any other mysterious reason behind it.