Why is it preferable to call a static method statically from within an instance of the method's class?

Question

If I create an instance of a class in Java, why is it preferable to call a static method of that same class statically, rather than using this.method()?

I get a warn

Answer 1

Static methods are really not part of your instance - and it will not be able to access any of your instance variables anyway, so I would dare thinking it doesn't make a lot of sense calling it from the constructor.

If your need to initialize static objects use

private static List l = new ArrayList();   static { l.add("something"); }

If you still need to call it its perfectly legal to call local static methods without prefixing your local class name, like this (no eclipse warning)

public MyClass() { staticMethod(); }