Java 24 arrived today in a production release, packed with two dozen features. It’s a short-term support release eligible for six months of premier support.

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 ...

Runtime errors can occur without warning and be difficult to resolve. Here are the five most common runtime errors in Java and advice on how to avoid them.

Ever wonder why Java's const keyword is unimplemented? More specifically, why do we mark global constants in Java with both the static and final keywords? Why are Java constants static and final? The ...