Can users call main method??

Question

class MainDemo{
public static void main(String args[]){
System.out.println("First main method");
MainDemo.main("hello");
}Hi all,
Why is the above code not compiling??

Answer 1

By adding few lines right after the System.out.println("First main method");.
class MainDemo
     public static void main(String args[])
          System.out.println("First main method");
          System.out.println("No.of args : " + args.length);
          if (args.length > 0)
               System.out.println("Passed in : " + args[0]);
          System.out.println();
    static
         String args[] = {"hello"};
         MainDemo.main(args);
}And the output gives :-
First main method
No.of args : 1
Passed in : hello
First main method
No.of args : 0
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Why is it JVM executes the main() method in the static block instead of the calling the main() method (without argument) directly ?
Edited by: TKH on Nov 14, 2007 1:08 AM