The Java Language Specification (JLS) is being updated with a more flexible launch protocol to offer greater flexibility in declaring a program's entry point and to allow instance main methods.

How to use the JOptionPane’s showOptionDialog method Java’s JOptionPane provides a simple way to read input from the user and display information back. The JOptionPane’s list of methods includes many ...

The Java Scanner class provides the following self-explanatory methods: nextInt() nextByte() nextBoolean() nextFloat() nextDouble() nextLong() nextShort() But the one method it doesn’t have is ...

Java 8 introduced a new list () method in java.nio.file.Files. The list method returns a lazily populated Stream of entries in the directory. As such, it is more efficient for processing large ...

In this blog post, I look at the concept of Java synthetic methods . The post summarizes what a Java synthetic method is, how one can be created and identified, and the implications of Java ...

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 ...