Why do we say that a static method in Java is not a virtual method?

Question

In object-oriented paradigm, a virtual function or virtual method is a function or method whose behavior can be overridden within an inheriting class by a f

Answer 1

Suppose you have class A

public class A
{
    public static void doAStaticThing()
    {
        System.out.println("In class A");
    }
}

And B

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

And a method in another class like this:

public void foo()
{
    B aB = new B();
    bar(B);
}

public void bar(A anA)
{
    anA.doAStaticThing(); // gives a warning in Eclipse
}

The message you will see on the console is

In class A

The compiler has looked at the declared type of anA in method bar and statically bound to class A's implementation of doAStaticThing(). The method is not virtual.