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 ...

Hello I'm writing a file parser that needs to the results of it parsing into a particular class. In the name of good code re-use in the future I didn't want this particular class name ...

What is the single responsibility principle? The single responsibility principle in Java demands that a class serves a single, clear purpose. Any attempt to add peripheral functionality to a ...

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