Question

I have been studying for my Software Development course and came across the question from a sample:

“Why does it make no sense to have both the static and final modifiers in front of a Java method?”

I have had a bit of a research and everywhere I go it says it is not bad practice and there are good reasons for doing so – for example, this stackoverflow question:
Is it a bad idea to declare a final static method?

So, is this question itself nonsensical or is there a legitimate answer to this question?

(There are no given solutions to this sample paper)

Answer 1

static methods cannot be overriden since they’re associated not with an instance of class, but with the class itself. For example, this is how you’d usually call static method:

  MyClass.myStaticMethod()

And this is how you call an instance method:

  new MyClass().myInstanceMethod()

final modifier is used with methods to disallow their override in extending classes.