Along with lambdas, Java SE 8 brought method references to the Java language. This tutorial offers a brief overview of method references in Java, then gets you started using them with Java code ...

Properties and methods make Java classes interesting. Properties represent the data an object possesses, while methods enable the intelligent manipulation of that data. However, to perform any ...

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 ...

Java's default constructor allows developers to create instances of classes when no other constructors are explicitly defined. The default constructor in Java takes no arguments -- it simply ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

It should be OK, right? Directly, we can invoke bar() on an instance of Blah using a short parameter because the short can be widened to an int. Reflectively, we can invoke bar() by passing a Short in ...