Lokesh M

 Profile Answers by Lokesh M Questions by Lokesh M

• Feb 9th, 2012

 

Yes, main can be declared as final.
Final means the method or variable cannot be modified in sub-class
It does not have any impact on main because Static function is not a part of object instance.

guna

• Feb 21st, 2012

 

If we declared as final in main,it compiles without error but throws runtime exception as "java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:main"

sampra

 Profile Answers by sampra 

• Mar 6th, 2012

 

Yes, main can be declared as final. Final means the method or variable cannot be modified in sub-class It does not have any impact on main because Static function is not a part of object instance.

Code
package com.san;


 


class Base {


        public final void doSomething(Object o) {


                System.out.println("Object");


        }


}


 


class Derived extends Base {


        public void doSomething(Integer i) {


                System.out.println("Int");


        }


 


}


 


public class Test {


        public static final void main(String[] args) {


                Base b = new Base();


                Derived d = new Derived();


                b.doSomething(new Integer(0));


                d.doSomething(new Integer(0));


        }


}

manas

• Jul 7th, 2012

 

As main is static we cant declare final.

visal Sigh

• Oct 26th, 2012

 

Yes we can.

smarti

• Aug 29th, 2013

 

there will be no exceptions occur while using final keyword in main i check it with my editplus editor by writing
simple java program

Indrajeet Kumar Singh

• Sep 12th, 2013

 

Yes, We can But we need to follow the order of specifier.

megha

• Mar 3rd, 2015

 

there is no axception occure while using final with main method.........

Devendra

• Sep 29th, 2015

 

Smarti please check your JDK version. Your answer is depends on your version. If you have JDK 1.8 then it will show compile time exception else your program get compile as you compiled.
Hope you got your answer.

kunal

• Jan 25th, 2016

 

We can declare main() as final but it will not be the "main" that JVM will be searching. since JVM search for "public static void main(string[] args)" so if you will put anything extra in this syntax then JVM will not be able to find the main method and it will give run time exception.

baban

• Feb 11th, 2016

 

Yes we can declare a main() as final

Manjunath_7_89

 Profile Answers by Manjunath_7_89 

• Mar 25th, 2016

 

As we know we cannot override a static method hence this final will be redundant. Yes we can declare main method as final. Sure, it can be declared final! It doesnt matter if it is declared final, the JVM will still find it and run it, and the compiler doesnt care

Sai Ram

• Apr 2nd, 2016

 

Compile succeeds, but will result in Run time exception
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main

Debashis Nanda

• Apr 22nd, 2016

 

Yes, we can declare main method as final no compile time error and no run time error.
But if we can not override that main method in subclass so if we want to execute the subclass, so we have to invoke everything inside static block of subclass.

Palash khatri

• May 4th, 2016

 

There is no such type of error is coming neither in compiling nor in running

Amit Sharma

• Jun 26th, 2016

 

It will work fine, and doesn't throw any error at compile and runtime time.

CHANDRA SEKHAR DASH

• Aug 28th, 2016

 

It will work fine, and doesnt throw any error at compile and runtime time.
Example:

Code
public class FinalInMain {


        final public static void main(String args[]){


System.out.println("Working fine without any error by adding final in main()");


}


}

Ganga_busi

• Mar 3rd, 2017

 

static itself is a public and final, then there is no difference if you are creating main method with final keyword.

M.Vijayapandiyan

• Mar 8th, 2017

 

Clearly explain for why and what purpose do we use the static in main method?

jayanth

• Mar 14th, 2017

 

If a method is declared as final, it means that we cant override the method. So, We can declare main method as final because there will be only one main method in our application that JVM calls (declaring another such method with the same method signature results in a Compile time error and hence there wont be any other such method)

k.swathireddy

• Mar 24th, 2017

 

We cant declare a main as final

Skk

• Apr 10th, 2017

 

You are missing static keyword in main method, that is why error is there.
public static final void main(String[] args) {
}

Jyoti Mittal

• Jun 9th, 2017

 

yes we can