Accessing Class Methods

Question

I am working on a little project and am at a sticking point.
What I want to do is access a method that resides in the class that contains the "main" method. I want to access the method from another class. So, I do not want to instantiate another of that class because that opens another "copy" of the program. I just want to access a method in that class.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks for any assistance.
Mike

Answer 1

how do I add an actionListener to a component that is declared static
inside the static method....cannot use "this" keyword?What do you mean declared static inside a static method? To the best of my knowledge, the only modifier (if that's the correct term) you can apply to variable declarations within methods (static or not) is final.
Anyway, taking a guess at what you want:
public class Main {
    private static final Component x = ;
    public static final main(final String[] args) {
        x.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(final ActionEvent e) {
                magicMethod();
    private static void magicMethod() {
}While you can't call an instance method from a static method (without having an instance) you can do the reverse. In this case, I'm not even doing the reverse, I'm calling a static method from an anonymous class instance declared within a static method.