一般来说，允许“重写”静态方法是没有意义的，因为没有好的方法来确定在运行时调用哪个方法。以Employee为例，如果我们调用regularemploee . getbonusmultiplier()——应该执行哪个方法?

以Java为例，人们可以想象这样一种语言定义:只要静态方法是通过对象实例调用的，就可以“覆盖”它们。然而，这样做只是重新实现常规的类方法，在没有真正带来任何好处的情况下为语言增加冗余。

I like and double Jay's comment (https://stackoverflow.com/a/2223803/1517187). I agree that this is the bad design of Java. Many other languages support overriding static methods, as we see in previous comments. I feel Jay has also come to Java from Delphi like me. Delphi (Object Pascal) was one of the languages implementing OOP before Java and one of the first languages used for commercial application development. It is obvious that many people had experience with that language since it was in the past the only language to write commercial GUI products. And - yes, we could in Delphi override static methods. Actually, static methods in Delphi are called "class methods", while Delphi had the different concept of "Delphi static methods" which were methods with early binding. To override methods you had to use late binding, declare "virtual" directive. So it was very convenient and intuitive and I would expect this in Java.

通过重写，我们可以根据对象类型创建一个多态性质。静态方法与对象无关。因此java不支持静态方法重写。

Here is a simple explanation. A static method is associated with a class while an instance method is associated with a particular object. Overrides allow calling the different implementation of the overridden methods associated with the particular object. So it is counter-intuitive to override static method which is not even associated with objects but the class itself in the first place. So static methods cannot be overridden based on what object is calling it, it will always be associated with the class where it was created.

静态方法、变量、块或嵌套类属于整个类而不是对象。

Java中的方法用于公开对象/类的行为。在这里，由于方法是静态的(即静态方法仅用于表示类的行为)，改变/覆盖整个类的行为将违反面向对象编程的基本支柱之一，即高内聚。(记住构造函数在Java中是一种特殊的方法。)

高内聚性——一个类应该只有一个角色。例如:car类应该只生成汽车对象，而不生成自行车、卡车、飞机等。但是Car类可能有一些只属于它自己的特性(行为)。

因此，在设计java编程语言时。语言设计者认为，只有通过使方法本质上是静态的，才能允许开发人员保留类的某些行为。

下面的代码尝试覆盖静态方法，但不会遇到任何编译错误。

public class Vehicle {
static int VIN;

public static int getVehileNumber() {
    return VIN;
}}

class Car extends Vehicle {
static int carNumber;

public static int getVehileNumber() {
    return carNumber;
}}

这是因为，在这里我们没有重写一个方法，而只是重新声明它。Java允许重新声明一个方法(静态/非静态)。

从Car类的getVehileNumber()方法中删除静态关键字将导致编译错误，因为，我们正在尝试改变只属于Vehicle类的静态方法的功能。

此外，如果getVehileNumber()被声明为final，那么代码将无法编译，因为final关键字限制程序员重新声明方法。

public static final int getVehileNumber() {
return VIN;     }

总的来说，这取决于软件设计人员在哪里使用静态方法。 我个人更喜欢使用静态方法来执行某些操作，而不需要创建类的任何实例。第二，对外界隐藏一个类的行为。

下面的代码表明这是可能的:

class OverridenStaticMeth {   

static void printValue() {   
System.out.println("Overriden Meth");   
}   

}   

public class OverrideStaticMeth extends OverridenStaticMeth {   

static void printValue() {   
System.out.println("Overriding Meth");   
}   

public static void main(String[] args) {   
OverridenStaticMeth osm = new OverrideStaticMeth();   
osm.printValue();   

System.out.println("now, from main");
printValue();

}   

}