Instance main methods and unnamed classes, coming in Java 21, will forever change how developers learn Java and bootstrap applications. Why? They provide a simple, clean and concise syntax to launch ...

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 ...

The entry point of a standalone Java application is the main method or function. In the age of Servlets and JSPs, Java’s main function took a backseat to these technologies that were initialized with ...

I wrote about the NetBeans hint “Overridable Method Call in Constructor” in ... That is shown in the next simple executable class (Main.java). package dustin.examples.overridable; import ...

The latest major release of the Apache programming language for the Java Virtual Machine offers numerous simplifications and ...