Java and inherited static members [duplicate]

Question

Suppose i have the below class:

class Parent
{
    private int ID;
    private static int curID = 0;

    Parent()
    {
         ID = curID;
         curID++;
    }
}

and these two subclasses:

class Sub1 extends Parent
{
    //...
}

and

class Sub2 extends Parent
{
    //...
}

My problem is that these two subclasses are sharing the same static curID member from parent class, instead of having different ones.

So if i do this:

{
    Sub1 r1 = new Sub1(), r2 = new Sub1(), r3 = new Sub1();
    Sub2 t1 = new Sub2(), t2 = new Sub2(), t3 = new Sub2();
}

ID's of r1,r2,r3 will be 0,1,2 and of t1,t2,t3 will be 3,4,5. Instead of these i want t1,t2,t3 to have the values 0,1,2, ie use another copy of curID static variable.

Is this possible? And how?

Answer 1

While static fields/methods are inherited, they cannot be overridden since they belong to the class that declares them, not to the object references. If you try to override one of those, what you'll be doing is hiding it.