Shortly after the Second Edition of Josh Bloch‘s Effective Java was released, I borrowed a colleague’s copy to browse it and consider purchasing a copy of my own despite already owning a copy of the ...

Properties and methods make Java classes interesting. Properties represent the data an object possesses, while methods enable the intelligent manipulation of that data. However, to perform any ...

Java is an object-oriented programming language. To create objects and meaningfully initialize them, a developer must use a Java constructor. Constructors are a critical part of software development ...

In my previous post (Part 4 of my series on dealing with too many parameters in Java methods), I looked at method overloading as one approach to providing clients with versions of methods or ...