Should a private final field be static too?

Question

I was wondering, if I have this field in my class : private final int foo = ..., should I put it in static private static final int foo = ...? Beca

Answer 1

It is a constant and you will not want to have one copy of the variable for each instance of the class,so make it static. Also, if you want to use them from a static method, make it static.

Static variables are those variables which are common for all the instances of a class.If one instance changes it, then value of static variable would be updated for all other instances.

If you do not want this behavior, keep it non-static.