[benzspida]

keep gettin 2 error messages

(1)The field greeting cannot be declared static; static fields can only be declared in static or top level types

this is what the code looks like


public class comment {
/**
* @author Craig
*
* This class demonstrates use of:<br>
* Line Comments<br>
* Block Comments<br>
* JavaDoc Comments.<br>
*/
public class CommentsExample {

/**
* Program comments are nonexecuting,
* statements you add to a program
* documentation for the purpose
* of documentation.
*/
protected static String greeting = "Hi";

//Program comments are nonexecuting,
//statements you add to a program
private static String name = "Guys"; //documentation for the purpose

public CommentsExample() {
//of documentation.()
super();
}

/**
* This is the entry point of the application.
* main() is executed first by the JVM.
*/
public void main(String[] args) {
/*
* Program comments are nonexecuting,
* statements you add to a program
* documentation for the purpose
* of documentation.
*/
System.out.println(greeting + " " + name);
}
}
}

[paulanthony]

You'd be better off in a Java forum...we dont use java round these parts generally. But I'd guess that its cause your class is nested (public class CommentsExample ). Static fields need to be in the top level class, and are inherited. Try moving it to class comment.

[sjd]

That's a really bizarre example. Why the outer class "comment"? Get rid of it and all will be ok (or do as paulanthony suggests, but then I don't know why you'd want an inner class anyway).