Here is a quote from Absolute Java, 1st Ed, by Walter Savitch:<BR>"Note that with a static method, the class name serves the same purpose as a calling object. (It would be legal to create an object of ...
June 6, 2001— At Tuesday’s “Effective Programming with Java Technology” conference session (TS-2425), Joshua Bloch, senior staff engineer from Sun Microsystems, presented some powerful, but not well ...
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 ...