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I am trying to understand why we can't override static and final methods. I do not get the purpose behind it.

Possible Duplicate: Why doesn't Java allow overriding of static methods? Is there any legitimate reason why one would want a derived class to override hide a static method of the base class?

class A{ public static void staticMethod(){ System.out.println("Static method of A"); } } class B extends A{ public static void staticMethod(){ System.out.println("Static ...

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From question three in these OCA practice questions (pdf): abstract class Writer { public static void write() { System.out.println("Writing..."); } } class Author extends Writer { ...

class Abc{ public static void hello(){ System.out.println("parent");//Line1 } } class Abc1 extends Abc{ public void hello(){//Line2 System.out.println("child");//Line3 } } Compiler gives ...

When I try running this piece of code, it gives me 30. Can someone please explain!I know you can't override static methods in Java, because, polymorphism and static won't work together. And static ...

I can't understand why compiler shows an error when I try compile this code : class A { public static void f() { System.out.println("A.f()"); } } class B extends A { public ...

I have superclass Token with some subclasses like Knight, King, Queen, etc. I need a random Token Type so I call this method: public Class randomTokenType(){ Class[] classes = { Bishop....

I have a old code which is like this- Public class ABC{ . . . Public static class InnerClass{ Public static method do something(){ } } } I want to override do something() method in ...

class B extends A { static public void printMe(){ System.out.println("in static B"); } } class A{ static public void printMe(){ System.out.println("In static A"); } } ...

Here if I try to override a static method without using static in the subclass it gives me an error.. while this is not a case with static variable. Why? class A { static int a; static void a(...

Trying to work on an example from a book on method overriding. The code has two classes Veggies and Pumpkin.The only confusion i have is if the object of pumpkin is assigned to the myveggie object, ...

public class Base { private static boolean goo = true; protected static boolean foo() { goo = !goo; return goo; } public String bar = "Base:" + foo(); public ...

I have started learning Java, and have come across this example, on this page: abstract class Writer { public static void write() { System.out.println("Writing..."); } } class Author extends ...