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 ...

There is a reason why Java method modifiers exist. If you call public methods internally and don't understand why, your developers could face major class issues.

JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.0 introduced many new features that will change the way you develop Java Web applications. In this article, Andrei Cioroianu walks you through three examples that show how ...

You may be used to seeing the wait(), notify(), and notifyAll() methods called within synchronized methods. But here's a subtlety that you may not know: The caller of the wait(), notify(), and ...