Scope of static variable and methods in Java

Question

I have some doubts about usage of static method in Java. I read many places static variables are instance independent so be comes global.

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Answer 1

It means the static variable are NOT global variable but only global to single execution!!!

Of course they are. All variables that are not persisted to some kind of storage (like the hard disk) do not retain their values between distinct executions of the program.