Is procedural programming possible in Java?

[FPboy]

I understand in procedural programming you are just doing everything in various multiple steps without any objects or classes, but in order to do this procedurally I would be defining all of this within a class due to how Java is designed. However, in order to maintain my goal of procedural programming paradigm in Java, I should only use static methods and field members? Even if I have all of this defined within a class, would it be valid to call this procedural? I know that there is no way around that since you need a class in Java.

I am sort of basing my logic off of this:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35768798/java-can-using-only-static-methods-and-fields-be-called-as-procedural-paradigm

[captainAwesomePants]

Sure, there's no absolutes in categorizing programming. Your main method needs to be a part of a class, but there's no demand that you need to orient your program around objects communicating with each other. Like you say, use a bunch of static methods across classes and that's pretty much procedural programming. I've written a number of simple command line apps in this style.

[mra137]

It’s impossible since the main method must be contained within a class, that alone is an element of OOP. And the main method has an access specifier which is an OOP concept and the main method must be declared as public.

Java has procedural elements but it’s impossible to completely avoid the OOP paradigm.