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 ...

Polymorphism also exists in programming languages, as a modeling technique that allows you to create a single interface to various operands ... method calls, the compiler knows which method to call.

The Java Remote Method Invocation system has many of the same features of other RPC systems, letting an object running in one Java virtual machine make a method call on an object ... lead to ...