Although Java exception chaining is simple to apply, this does not mean it is applied uniformly. In his blog post A Pox Upon All of Your getMessage Calls, Ian Darwin (author of Java Cookbook ...

In Listing C, we can see our Scheduler/Task setup modified to take advantage of the Java 1.4’s exception chaining.

Constructor overloading in Java occurs when a class has multiple constructors, each with a separate and unique method signature. Overloading constructors in Java provides a variety of benefits to both ...

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 default constructor lets developers create instances of classes when an explicitly defined constructor does not exist. Here's how it works.