In this post, we will learn how to call a method in Java. This is a useful “chunk” of code that you can call from anywhere else in your program, thus preventing you from needing to write out the same ...

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 ...

Oracle’s Java 7 release introduced a new invokedynamic bytecode instruction to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and a new java.lang.invoke API package to the standard class library. This post introduces ...