Are local variables in static methods also static?

Question

I am wondering do all the local variables become static if we declare them in a static method ?

for example:

  public static void A(){
        int x [] = {3,2};
        changeX(x);

        for (int i = 0; i< x.length; i++){
             System.out.println(x[i]);   // this will print -1 and 1
        }
  }
  private static void changeX(int[] x){
        x[0] = -1;
        x[1] =  1;
  }

As far as I understand that Java is pass by value always, but why the state of X has changed after we made the changeX call ? Can anyone explain that please ? and can anyone explains how does Java deal with static variables in terms of memory allocation ? and what happen if we pass a static variable to a function as a parameter (I know people won't normally do that)

Answer 1

As others have pointed out, the variables which are local to a METHOD are the same as any other variable declared within any other method -- they are dynamically allocated and may be freed when the method returns the the variable is no longer visible.

However, if you need static variables, you would have to declare them outside the methods, as ordinary static variables for a class. If, by convention, you leave them alone except when inside that particular method, they have the same effect as if they were static and local to the method. Just be sure to add comments to that effect.