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 ...

The Java tutorial Java 101: Classes and objects in Java introduces the fundamentals of Java classes and objects, including how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields, describe behaviors ...

Java's default constructor allows developers to create instances of classes when no other constructors are explicitly defined. The default constructor in Java takes no arguments -- it simply ...

It should be OK, right? Directly, we can invoke bar() on an instance of Blah using a short parameter because the short can be widened to an int. Reflectively, we can invoke bar() by passing a Short in ...