This chapter is really the beginning of OOP. I think Java is really designed with the concept of OOP. Even those process oriented programming elements are forced to be absorbed in that systems and become static element. If in one day, which may not be too far away, OOP are no longer popular, Java would either.
Ironically, we always had to have some place to start up a program, and that place can’t be an non-static method, at which no object has been created since it is the beginning. So, the starting point is always a static method, either main() method or something else in JUnit or things like that. In that static method, we can call other static methods or create new objects and run non-static method on that. However, every static method cannot go beyond classes.