To do this, we change the word “void” for the type of variable we want to return, and we add “return value” at the end of the method. This changes how we call a method in Java, because we ...

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 ...