Method references in Java are part of the broader set of features introduced and enhanced in Java 8 and beyond. They are a concise way to refer to methods of classes or objects.

One is based on the JSP 2.0 support for functions, which are EL constructs that allow you to call Java classes’ static methods. Another solution uses custom tags that get the method parameters ...

A public method should never be called by another public method within the same class hierarchy. It should only be called by other classes via the classes' public interface. Class calls might not be ...

In the age of Servlets and JSPs, Java’s main function took a backseat to these technologies that were initialized with a call to their init() method, and invoked through calls to their doGet() or ...