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 ...

Hiding Java method deprecation problems There are plenty of deprecated methods in Java, and there’s nothing stopping you from calling them. Sure, a yellow yield sign might appear in the line-number ...

A public method should never be called by another public method within the same class hierarchy. It should only be called by other classes via the classes' public interface. Class calls might not be ...