In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

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 ...

Constructor overloading in Java occurs when a class has multiple constructors, each with a separate and unique method signature. Overloading constructors in Java provides a variety of benefits to both ...

Using generics results in more robust code and avoids ClassCastExceptions in your Java programs ... invoking a class’s generic constructor, or invoking a generic method. We can go further ...