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 ...

At JavaZone 2010 I will be giving a lightning talk on APIs that use dynamic ... by calling the invocation handler. Which simply saves what method was called. Maybe the future of Java isn’t ...

In the age of Servlets and JSPs, Java’s main function took a backseat to these technologies that were initialized with a call to their init() method, and invoked through calls to their doGet() or ...

Java is an object-oriented programming language. To create objects and meaningfully initialize them, a developer must use a Java constructor. Constructors are a critical part of software development ...