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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The entry point of a standalone Java application is the main method or function. In the age of ...

Hello I'm writing a file parser that needs to the results of it parsing into a particular class. In the name of good code re-use in the future I didn't want this particular class name ...

While it seems so basic that it wouldn't require a mention, there's a basic and often violated software design principle pertaining to Java method modifiers that is in need of explanation. A public ...

You may be used to seeing the wait(), notify(), and notifyAll() methods called within synchronized methods. But here's a subtlety that you may not know: The caller of the wait(), notify(), and ...

JDK 25 brings powerful new features to Java and JVM developers. Here are seven new or updated features that could convince ...