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 ...

Java’s main function Java’s main function Java’s main method is composed of six terms — three reserved words, the main method name, a reference type and a variable name: public – Java’s main function ...

Here is a quote from Absolute Java, 1st Ed, by Walter Savitch:<BR>"Note that with a static method, the class name serves the same purpose as a calling object. (It would be legal to create an ...

Write native methods in your Java code. Then run <I>javah</I> on that to produce headers. Use these headers to write a wrapper that delegates to the static library.