What means when method is italic in IntelliJ IDEA?

问题

By default, IntelliJ IDEA shows some of the methods as italic when we call them:

Example:

Authentication auth = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();

getContext() is italic, but getAuthentication() isn't, what does it mean?

回答1:

A method written in italic indicate that this method is a static method.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33894818/what-means-when-method-is-italic-in-intellij-idea