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 ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...

Java is an object-oriented language, and Java constructors are how you create objects. Learn about object creation in this full Java constructor tutorial.

Java's default constructor lets developers create instances of classes when an explicitly defined constructor does not exist. Here's how it works.