| Early | Late |
| Compile time | Run time |
| Overloading | Overriding |
- Static binding happens at compile-time while dynamic binding happens at runtime.
- Binding of private, static and final methods always happen at compile time since these methods cannot be overridden. When the method overriding is actually happening and the reference of parent type is assigned to the object of child class type then such binding is resolved during runtime.
- The binding of overloaded methods is static and the binding of overridden methods is dynamic.