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 ...

NetBeans 7.1's Internal Compiler and JDK 6 Respecting Return Type for Method Overloading. ... For example, if the code above is changed so that the methods return the same type, ...