public关键字是一个访问修饰符，它允许程序员进行控制 类成员的可见性。当类成员前面有public时，则 成员可以由声明它的类之外的代码访问。

public的反义词是private，它防止成员被定义在类外部的代码使用。

在这种情况下，main()必须声明为public，因为必须调用它 当程序启动时，由其类之外的代码执行。

关键字static允许 Main()被调用，而不必实例化类的特定实例。这是必要的，因为Java解释器在创建任何对象之前调用main()。

关键字void只是告诉编译器main()不返回值。

The static key word in the main method is used because there isn't any instantiation that take place in the main method. But object is constructed rather than invocation as a result we use the static key word in the main method. In jvm context memory is created when class loads into it.And all static members are present in that memory. if we make the main static now it will be in memory and can be accessible to jvm (class.main(..)) so we can call the main method with out need of even need for heap been created.

public static void main(String args[])是什么意思?

public is an access specifier meaning anyone can access/invoke it such as JVM(Java Virtual Machine. static allows main() to be called before an object of the class has been created. This is neccesary because main() is called by the JVM before any objects are made. Since it is static it can be directly invoked via the class. class demo { private int length; private static int breadth; void output(){ length=5; System.out.println(length); } static void staticOutput(){ breadth=10; System.out.println(breadth); } public static void main(String args[]){ demo d1=new demo(); d1.output(); // Note here output() function is not static so here // we need to create object staticOutput(); // Note here staticOutput() function is static so here // we needn't to create object Similar is the case with main /* Although: demo.staticOutput(); Works fine d1.staticOutput(); Works fine */ } } Similarly, we use static sometime for user defined methods so that we need not to make objects. void indicates that the main() method being declared does not return a value. String[] args specifies the only parameter in the main() method. args - a parameter which contains an array of objects of class type String.

这只是惯例。事实上，甚至main()的名称和传入的参数都是纯粹的约定。

当您运行Java .exe(或Windows上的javaw.exe)时，真正发生的是几个Java本机接口(JNI)调用。这些调用加载的DLL是真正的JVM(没错，java.exe不是JVM)。JNI是我们用来连接虚拟机世界和C、c++等语言世界的工具。反过来也是对的——不使用JNI是不可能让JVM运行的(至少据我所知)。

基本上，java.exe是一个超级简单的C应用程序，它解析命令行，在JVM中创建一个新的String数组来保存这些参数，解析出您指定的包含main()的类名，使用JNI调用查找main()方法本身，然后调用main()方法，将新创建的字符串数组作为参数传入。这非常非常类似于您从Java中使用反射时所做的事情——它只是使用了令人混淆的命名本机函数调用。

编写自己版本的java.exe(源代码随JDK一起分发)并让它做一些完全不同的事情是完全合法的。事实上，这正是我们对所有基于java的应用程序所做的。

我们的每个Java应用程序都有自己的启动器。我们这样做主要是为了得到我们自己的图标和进程名，但在其他情况下，当我们想做一些常规的main()调用之外的事情来让事情继续进行时，它也很方便(例如，在一种情况下，我们正在进行COM互操作性，我们实际上将COM句柄传递给main()而不是字符串数组)。

So, long and short: the reason it is static is b/c that's convenient. The reason it's called 'main' is that it had to be something, and main() is what they did in the old days of C (and in those days, the name of the function was important). I suppose that java.exe could have allowed you to just specify a fully qualified main method name, instead of just the class (java com.mycompany.Foo.someSpecialMain) - but that just makes it harder on IDEs to auto-detect the 'launchable' classes in a project.

The main method of the program has the reserved word static which means it is allowed to be used in the static context. A context relates to the use of computer memory during the running of the program. When the virtual machine loads a program, it creates the static context for it, allocating computer memory to store the program and its data, etc.. A dynamic context is certain kind of allocation of memory which is made later, during the running of the program. The program would not be able to start if the main method was not allowed to run in the static context.

我认为关键字“静态”使主方法成为类方法，类方法只有它的一个副本，可以被所有人共享，而且，它不需要一个对象来引用。因此，当编译驱动程序类时，可以调用主方法。(我只是在java的字母级别，如果我错了，对不起)