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Constructors play a key role in all object-oriented programming languages, and Java is no exception. Every class a Java developer creates needs a constructor. Constructors perform numerous important ...

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 ...

I think that most experienced Java developers are aware of many of the many characteristics of the Java String that make it a little different than other objects. One particular nuance of the Java ...

i'm relatively new in Java programming and i have a few questions about contructors. i learned that the only thing they do is initialize all the variables. however, some of the examples that my ...

The previous section discussed how to obtain and set up Java for both Windows and Linux personal computers. Now, we're going to talk briefly about the Java language itself. Again, we're not trying to ...