To call a method in Java, you type the method’s name, followed by brackets. For example, the following will call a method called “helloMethod()”: Code. Copy Text helloMethod(); ...

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 ...

Java’s main function. Java’s main method is composed of six terms — three reserved words, the main method name, a reference type and a variable name: public – Java’s main function requires a public ...

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 ...

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 ...