There is a reason why Java method modifiers exist. If you call public methods internally and don't understand why, your developers could face major class issues.

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 ...

In the Method Handles API, introduced in Java 7, this role is fulfilled by the java.lang.invoke.MethodType class, which uses immutable instances to represent signatures.