Static overriding

[donal horgan]

This is in relation to a questiuon by someone earlier.
Someone agreed in saying that you cannot override static methods.
They said that the code below is actually hiding the static method from the supere class.

So -- in this scenario in practice what is the difference between hiding a static method as opposed to the effect of overriding a method generally?

class Test1
{
static void go()
{
System.out.println("Hello, go in super class");
}
}

public class Test extends Test1
{
public static void main(String [] args)
{
Test t = new Test();
t.cgo();
go();
}
static void go()
{
System.out.println("go overridden");
}
void cgo()
{
super.go();
}

}

[Srinivasa Raghavan]

Check this link and scroll down to 8.4.6.2 Hiding (by Class Methods)

[Nikhilesh Fonseca]

/*try this code out to clear it all up */

class sup
{
static void xyz(){
System.out.println("Static Super");

}
void xyz(int a)
{
System.out.println("Instance Super");
}
}
class sub extends sup
{
static void xyz(){
System.out.println("Static Sub");
}
void xyz(int a)
{
System.out.println("Instance Sub");

}
}
class test{

public static void main(String args[]) {
sup a=new sub();
a.xyz();
a.xyz(1);
}
}

The output that you shud get
Static super
Instance sub