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 ...

Java supports method overloading, the ability to have different version of the same method differentiated by their method signatures. Note that a different return type as sole difference between ...

NetBeans 8.0, now generally available, has been upgraded with new code analyzers and editor enhancements for identifying and converting code to new Java language constructs, such as Lambda Expressions ...