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34: Mainline

Finally, you come to the method's body. In general, a method's body consists of matched braces surrounding a sequence of one or more statements, which tell the Java compiler what computations to perform. In the example, the body exhibits only one statement:

public static void main (String argv[]) { 
 6 + 9 + 8;                                   <-- Body statement 
} 

The statement, like most Java statements, consists of an expression, 6 + 9 + 8, and the statement terminator, a semicolon, ;.