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 ...

In this post, we will learn how to call a method in Java. This is a useful “chunk” of code that you can call from anywhere else in your program, thus preventing you from needing to write out the same ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. They’re deprecating finalize. That’s a pretty drastic move. Finalize is defined right there in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new JavaServer Pages (JSP) version incorporates the expression language (EL) introduced by the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) to let Web designers produce scriptless JSP pages that don’t contain ...