The Java Scanner class provides the following self-explanatory methods: nextInt() nextByte() nextBoolean() nextFloat() nextDouble() nextLong() nextShort() But the one method it doesn’t have is ...

How to use the JOptionPane’s showOptionDialog method Java’s JOptionPane provides a simple way to read input from the user and display information back. The JOptionPane’s list of methods includes many ...

invokedynamic was the first new Java bytecode since Java 1.0 and was crucial in implementing the "headline" features of Java 8 (such as lambdas and default methods). In this article, we take a ...

Java 8 introduced a new list () method in java.nio.file.Files. The list method returns a lazily populated Stream of entries in the directory. As such, it is more efficient for processing large ...

In this blog post, I look at the concept of Java synthetic methods . The post summarizes what a Java synthetic method is, how one can be created and identified, and the implications of Java ...

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 ...