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 ...

Learn seven advanced techniques for working with fields and methods in Java, including recursion, method call chaining, pass-by-value arguments, and rules for calling methods ...

Constructors, overloaded methods, overridden methods, and other aspects of Java can also be illustrated on OOP diagrams but have not been shown on the diagram to keep it simple.

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 ...