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 ...

Hello I'm writing a file parser that needs to the results of it parsing into a particular class. In the name of good code re-use in the future I didn't want this ...

The new JavaServer Pages (JSP) version incorporates the expression language (EL) introduced by the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) to let Web designers produce scriptless JSP pages that don’t contain ...

While it seems so basic that it wouldn't require a mention, there's a basic and often violated software design principle pertaining to Java method modifiers that is in need of explanation. A public ...