Original post:
Situation: I have to use a Kotlin-based library in a Java project. I must override a static getter method in a class that extends a class in Kotlin.
I realized that this is not possible since the method is final, and there is no way to modify the library Kotlin code to solve this.
Conclusion: since @JvmStatic annotations are meant for Java interoperability, I think they should generate static methods that are non-final.
Update:
Actually, I found out that adding @JvmStatic to a method in a companion object that is marked open works just fine! However, in IntelliJ, this warns
‘open’ has no effect in an object
which threw me off. I suppose this is something to be addressed in IntelliJ, and to go back one step, in the documentation of @JvmStatic.