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 ...

Here's how to make classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects work together in your Java programs.

Java is an object-oriented language, and Java constructors are how you create objects. Learn about object creation in this full Java constructor tutorial.