Imagine you are an expert object-oriented Java developer who meticulously crafts code the way an artist cares for their masterpiece. You believe clean code is an absolute necessity. Classes with clear ...

The first half of this introduction to Java inheritance teaches you how to use the extends keyword to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent class constructors and methods, and ...

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 from ...