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 ...

You may be used to seeing the wait(), notify(), and notifyAll() methods called within synchronized methods. But here's a subtlety that you may not know: The caller of the wait(), notify(), and ...

While it seems so basic that it wouldn't require a mention, there's a basic and often violated software design principle pertaining to Java method modifiers that is in need of explanation. A public ...

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