The Java Scanner class provides the following self-explanatory methods: nextInt() nextByte() nextBoolean() nextFloat() nextDouble() nextLong() nextShort() But the one method it doesn’t have is ...

invokedynamic was the first new Java bytecode since Java 1.0 and was crucial in implementing the "headline" features of Java 8 (such as lambdas and default methods). In this article, we take a ...

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.

With NetBeans configured for J2SE 5, only methods extending a parent had a hint for @Override suggested, but in NetBeans configured to use Java SE 6 as the source release, methods implementing an ...

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 ...