I have occasionally heard the terms method overloading and method overriding used interchangeably. While the difference between these two concepts can be relatively easily explained, the difference in ...

In a class hierarchy, when a method in a subclass has the same name and type signature as a method in its superclass, then the method in the subclass is said to override the method in the superclass.

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 ...