I have a class, say TextHolder, that overrides Object.equals() to return true if both strings in each object are equal - <tt>new TextHolder("Hello World!").equals(new ...

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 ...

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 ...