The word ‘public’ in the fi rst line of main() means that this routine can be called from outside of the
program. This is essential because the main() routine is called by the Java interpreter. The use of static
for method is to allow you to call that method creating an object. The void means functions do not return
any value. The arguments within main are called command line arguments. String is a built-in class in
Java and all the arguments are passed to program and are collected in array args. The name of the String
array may be anything.
When Java interpreter runs the program, the ...
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