DOUbt on Applications of static method

[cyrus]

I know about static method but I am curious to know where would one use static method in real time applications while developing applications.

[sammy]

The main place where static method is applied is when the method is stateless. There is nothing wrong in using the static method is used when there is a state but it will be of no use.

[ashfaque_khan6]

Generally Static methods are used to load the class prior to execution of the constructor using class.forname methods.
In real time if u implementing a class for an interface provided by java soft, like while making a driver class or webservers these static methods is used.