A response on that thread refers to the NetBeans Java Hint Module Tutorial. Looking over that tutorial reminds me that the approach outlined in this post and available in NetBeans 7.1 is certainly ...

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 ...

New NetBeans Offers Java 7. By Joab Jackson. Apr 20, 2011 5:20 am PDT. ... One example is a revamped “switch” statement, which can now evaluate strings, in addition to numerical values.