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What are Static variables in JAVA?

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The static keyword denotes that a member variable, or method, can be accessed without requiring an instantiation of the class to which it belongs.
While programming you might have observed that there are many classes creating constants that can be read, without creating an object.
For example:

static final int VERSION = 2;

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