The entry point of a standalone Java application is the main method or function. In the age of Servlets and JSPs, Java’s main function took a backseat to these technologies that were initialized with ...

What is a parameterized constructor in Java? The default constructor is perfect to perform the exact function that it describes: assign defaults. But in real-world Java applications, the program ...

There are multiple approaches for instantiating JavaScript objects. As a Java developer, I prefer the “constructor function” approach.

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 ...