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 ...

Constructors (in java), have no ability to do this. Though it's potentially something that could be added to the language. We've discussed it in C#, but shied away from it as it's so different ...

Optimizing overloaded Java constructors. These overloaded constructors repeat the same basic initialization steps, and that's a code smell. If you want an overloaded Java constructor to call another ...

Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields ...

Method referencing method reference is feature related to lambda expressions. method references are more readable form of lambda expressions for already written methods. :: operator is used to define ...

The syntax of a Java constructor is simple. For the most part, it follows the same rules as Java methods with the following exceptions: A Java constructor has the same name as the class. A constructor ...