The reason why global constants in Java use the static and final keywords is because final ensures a variable cannot change, while static ensures only one copy of the constant variable is placed in ...

Java’s main function Java’s main method is composed of six terms — three reserved words, the main method name, a reference type and a variable name: public – Java’s main function requires a public ...

After reading this section, check out Method References in Java 8 (Toby Weston, February 2014) for more insight into method references in bound and unbound non-static method contexts.

The method I presented here might not work well in multithreaded code. There's a high chance not all threads will see the variable change immediately so that it might cause some additional problems.