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 reason why global constants in Java use the static and final keywords is because final ensures a variable cannot change, while static ensures only one copy of the constant variable is placed in ...

Java 8 introduced interface-based static methods because it’s often convenient to associate utility methods with interfaces instead of associating them with utility classes.