Can I Overload Static Methods in Java

Overloading is a one of the mechanisms to achieve polymorphism where, a class contains two methods with same name and different parameters.

Whenever you call this method the method body will be bound with the method call based on the parameters.

Example

 Live Demo

public class Calculator {
   public int addition(int a , int b){
      int result = a+b;
      return result;
   }
   public int addition(int a , int b, int c){
      int result = a+b+c;
      return result;
   }
   public static void main(String args[]){
      Calculator cal = new Calculator();
      System.out.println(cal.addition(12, 13, 15));
   }
}

Output

40

Overloading static methods

Yes, we can overload static methods in Java.

Example

 Live Demo

public class Calculator {
   public static int addition(int a , int b){
      int result = a+b;
      return result;
   }
   public static int addition(int a , int b, int c){
      int result = a+b+c;
      return result;
   }
   public static void main(String args[]){
      System.out.println(Calculator.addition(12, 13));
      System.out.println(Calculator.addition(12, 13, 15));
   }
}

Output

25
40