This post explains how to call a method in Java. Learn how to define methods, call them from other classes, and pass arguments!

Java is influenced by C and C++, so it has many similarities with those languages (and C#). One of the big advantages of Java is that it is “platform independent.” This means that code you ...

The example code below shows how to use Java’s DirectoryStream in a method to list the files of a directory: public Set<String> listFilesUsingDirectoryStream(String dir) throws IOException { ...

Overloading is a very powerful technique for scenarios where you need the same method name with different parameters. It’s a useful technique because having the right name in your code makes a ...

For example, method overloading that removed the expectation of a middle name being passed in was far more effective in my examples than the method overloading making assumptions about a specific ...