Here's a topic I don't understand. What's the benefit of making a private constructor and a public getInstance method? I understand why you would make the constructor private: to keep someone from ...

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 from ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...