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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...