I wrote about the NetBeans hint “Overridable Method Call in Constructor” in the blog post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints. In this post, I look at why having an overridable method called from ...

Java's default constructor allows developers to create instances of classes when no other constructors are explicitly defined. The default constructor in Java takes no arguments -- it simply ...

In this blog post, I look at the concept of Java synthetic methods. The post summarizes what a Java synthetic method is, how one can be created and identified, and the implications of Java synthetic ...