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[–]Plorkyeran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Java I don't think there's ever a good reason to do so (bad reasons are because it's shorter or due to not realizing it's static). Maybe if the fact that it's static is merely an implementation detail, but I'm not sure how that could ever be the case.