Re: issue with inherited static members in java interfaces (possible bug?)

On 10 Feb 2006, at 19:02, Jason Kinzer wrote:

On 2/10/06, Adriaan Moors <adriaan.moors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As far as I know, this is consistent with how it works in Java: static members aren't inherited. So I guess that it's intended to work this way.

Hmmmm... empirically this does not appear to be the case:

I stand corrected, but I wasn't completely wrong (I think) ;-)

According to http://www.artima.com/designtechniques/static.html, static members aren't dynamically bound (they are implicitly final), so, although they are inherited, they can't be overridden -- only hidden... this makes them quite useless (for anything else than simple utility methods)

sorry about the mistake, 

adriaan