Why - public static void main ( String[] args )

[Rebecca Pickett]

In all the assignments I've done so far, the following line of code has been the signature of "main":
public static void main ( String[] args )
The question is: Why do you need the incoming string to be in an array? Why can it not just be a plain string, without the array?

[Steven YaegerII]

I think it's mainly for the possibility that more than one argument is ran at the command line. An array can hold a single or multiple Strings. I couldn't think of any other reason.

[paul wheaton]

Most importantly, if you don't provide the right signature, the main won't be called.