I have a static method defined in a base class, I want to overwrite this method in its child class, is it possible? I tried this but it did not work as I expected. When I created an instance of class B and invoke its callMe() method, the static foo() method in class A is invoked. public abstract class A { public static void foo() { System.out.println("I am base class"); } public void callMe() { foo(); } } Public class B { public static void foo() { System.out.println("I am child class"); } }