Does it mean that static method are initialized before static variables?
Charles, methods never get initialized.
It is the memeber variables that are intialized using initializer expressions and initializer blocks. Approriate method simply get invoked when there is a call for it in an initializer expressions or initializer blocks.
Static initializer expressions and static initializer blocks get executed only once when the class is loaded, in the order they appear in the class.
Instance initializer expressions and instance initializer blocks get executed every time a new instance is created, in the order they appear in the class.