Question

In Inheritance concept, i have a static method in super class and i am inheriting that class to one sub class. In that case the static method is inherited to sub class or not?

Answer 1

If the method is public static or protected static in the superclass it will be accessible in the subclass. So in that sense it is inherited. The code below will compile and run fine.

public class A {
   public static String foo() {
     return "hello world";
   }
}

public class B extends A {
   public void bar() {
      System.out.println(foo());
   }
}

However, this is a bad use of the term “inherited” as it is not tied to a particular instance – hence Kaleb’s answer. Normal OO design does not treat static methods as inherited, and it gets very confusing, especially when you start talking about overriding them.