正如Jon已经说过的，静态变量，也称为类变量，是跨类实例存在的变量。

我在这里找到了一个例子:

public class StaticVariable
{
  static int noOfInstances;
  StaticVariable()
  {
    noOfInstances++;
  }
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    StaticVariable sv1 = new StaticVariable();
    System.out.println("No. of instances for sv1 : " + sv1.noOfInstances);

    StaticVariable sv2 = new StaticVariable();
    System.out.println("No. of instances for sv1 : "  + sv1.noOfInstances);
    System.out.println("No. of instances for st2 : "  + sv2.noOfInstances);

    StaticVariable sv3 = new StaticVariable();
    System.out.println("No. of instances for sv1 : "  + sv1.noOfInstances);
    System.out.println("No. of instances for sv2 : "  + sv2.noOfInstances);
    System.out.println("No. of instances for sv3 : "  + sv3.noOfInstances);
  }
}

程序输出如下:

正如我们在这个例子中看到的，每个对象都有自己的类变量副本。

C:\java>java StaticVariable
No. of instances for sv1 : 1
No. of instances for sv1 : 2
No. of instances for st2 : 2
No. of instances for sv1 : 3
No. of instances for sv2 : 3
No. of instances for sv3 : 3

"Static" keyword makes the variable property of the class rather than individual instances of the class. There will be one copy of that variable that is shared amongst all the instances of that class. Any change in the state of the static variable will be reflected across all the instances. Add final to static and we get a variable that has been initialised once and for all at the class loading time and cannot be changed later by any instance of the class. Static final variables need to be initialised at the declaration time else we have compile time error. As far as private instance field is concerned, it refers to the property /state of an object /instance of a class. Each instance /object of the class will have its own copy of instance variable. When instance variable is declared final, it means we cannot change its value for this instance. For this we need to initialise the final variable either at declaration or in the constructor.If its not done in either of them, compile time error will show. Once initialised, if you try to reassign a value you will get a compile time error. Use static final variables where the data will be shared across all the instances of the class and you want the data to be read only.Use instance final variable if you want to represent some data that belongs to a each individual instance of the class but once stored cannot be changed. Usage of static and instance key word depends upon your design needs and what that data represents in the domain. If the data is used across the class instances then there is no need for individual copies/memory references for each object.

静态意味着“与类相关联”;没有它，变量与类的每个实例相关联。如果它是静态的，这意味着内存中只有一个;如果没有，您将为创建的每个实例创建一个。静态意味着只要类被加载，变量就会保留在内存中;如果没有它，当变量的实例被回收时，变量就会被回收。

这可能会有所帮助

public class LengthDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
    Rectangle box = new Rectangle();
    System.out.println("Sending the value 10.0 "
            + "to the setLength method.");
    box.setLength(10.0);
    System.out.println("Done.");
    }
}

非常少，而且是静态的

因为它们都是常数，所以区别不大。对于大多数类数据对象，静态意味着与类本身相关联的东西，无论用new创建了多少个对象，都只有一个副本。

因为它是一个常量，所以它实际上可能不会存储在类中或实例中，但是编译器仍然不会让你从静态方法访问实例对象，即使它知道它们会是什么。如果您不使反射API成为静态的，那么它的存在也可能需要一些无意义的工作。

由于类中的变量在同一个命令中声明为final和初始化， 绝对没有理由不将其声明为静态，因为无论实例如何，它都具有相同的值。因此，所有实例都可以为一个值共享相同的内存地址，这样就不需要为每个实例创建一个新变量，并通过共享一个公共地址来节省内存，从而节省了处理时间。