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 ...

'I started writing a basic "mocked up" data migration based on the "Money transfer project" and the Java SDK documentation. Its been going slowly since I got stuck on ...

I think that most experienced Java developers are aware of many of the many characteristics of the Java String that make it a little different than other objects. One particular nuance of the Java ...

Here's a topic I don't understand. What's the benefit of making a private constructor and a public getInstance method? I understand why you would make the constructor private: to keep someone from ...

i'm relatively new in Java programming and i have a few questions about contructors. i learned that the only thing they do is initialize all the variables. however, some of the examples that my ...