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 ...

The entry point of a standalone Java application is the main method or function. In the age of Servlets and JSPs, Java’s main function took a backseat to these technologies that were initialized with ...

When compiling class initializers and class initialization blocks, the Java compiler stores the compiled bytecode (in top-down order) in a special method named <clinit>().