You can, if you pass args to the constructor:
public class Program
{
private stringString foo;
private stringString bar;
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Program program = new Program(args);
program.run();
}
private Program(String[] args)
{
this.foo = args[0];
this.bar = args[1];
// etc
}
private void run()
{
// whatever
}
}