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 ...

Proposal would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final flelds, preparing for a future Java release that disallows mutation of final fields by default.

The const keyword is not implemented in Java because Java’s final keyword does a better job of expressing what it means to be a constant in an object-oriented system. In Java, final is used to perform ...