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 ...

Follow these five guidelines when you include Java's default constructor in your code: A default constructor exists only when no other constructors exist in the class. The default constructor takes no ...

There are other tools besides the ones that I have already focused on that, through static analysis, identify and flag awhen a Java method or constructor accepts “too many parameters.” These ...