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From: John McGrath [TeamB]
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 19:22

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"Mark Griffiths" <DONT.SPAM.mark@chive.com> wrote:

> How about the following?  The class 't' does not have a static main(), but
> before the JVM can find that out, it must load the class.  When a class is
> loaded, it's static initializers are executed... bingo!

Exactly!  You will get the message:

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main

written to standard error, but otherwise, the program runs just as if you
had put the code in a main() method, rather than in a static initializer.

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Regards,

John McGrath  [TeamB]

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