Developers who create a runnable Java class, be it for a ‘Hello World’ demonstration or to kick off a fully featured enterprise application, will enjoy the following technical benefits when using ...

static – Java’s main method is static, which means no instances need to be created beforehand to invoke it. void – Some programming languages return a zero or 1 to indicate the main method has run ...

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 ...