One day, there will be a full increment release of Java, and when that two-point-oh version becomes official, I am desperately hoping they will include a fully implemented toString() method in the ...

I have found the humble Java toString() to be one of the most useful and powerful techniques in debugging and troubleshooting Java applications. That is only true, unfortunately, when and if the ...

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 ...