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 super keyword, which can be used only in instance contexts, references an overridden method in a superclass. You may occasionally need to create a method reference that refers to a ...

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.