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 ...

Benefits of the Java String printf method The Java String printf method can be confusing at first, but it greatly simplifies how you format complex Strings. This is especially true when creating ...

The core of Java serialization lies in the ObjectOutputStream and ObjectInputStream classes. These streams provide methods to write and read objects. Here’s a simple example of serializing an ...

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 ...