Runtime Polymorphism

RunTime Polymorphism cannot be applied to static methods and variables

Can anybody explain what the above statement depicts?

Thanks in advance,
G.Sathish kumar

RunTime Polymorphism cannot be applied to static methods and variables

as static variables and methods are bound to class and not to objects, polymorphism is not possible.

Hope this helps

Thanks Dude

Originally posted by Amit Ghorpade:

as static variables and methods are bound to class and not to objects, polymorphism is not possible.

Well, first, in Java (as in any other language I know), runtime polymorphism doesn't apply to member variables either.

Second, there are languages out there where classes are objects, too, and therefore class methods are also polymorphic. Just not in Java.

[Ilja Preuss]:[...]in Java (as in any other language I know), runtime polymorphism doesn't apply to member variables either.

In Scala member values not explicitly declared private are inherited and overridable. As a matter of fact its a common idiom in Scala to eschew passing in arguments to a constructor in favor of creating an anonymous subclass and overriding specific values.

Originally posted by Ilja Preuss

Second, there are languages out there where classes are objects, too, and therefore class methods are also polymorphic. Just not in Java

I am unaware about other OO languages, except Java and C++.
So I was talking in context of Java

[ June 15, 2008: Message edited by: Amit Ghorpade ]