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 ...

Method overriding with Java inheritance Inheritance allows us to reuse the methods and other attributes of one class in a new class, which is very convenient.

There is a reason why Java method modifiers exist. If you call public methods internally and don't understand why, your developers could face major class issues.