In order to take advantage of the many possibilities opened up by scripting on the Java platform, you should clearly understand the challenges and benefits involved. You need to understand what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...