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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. They’re deprecating finalize. That’s a pretty drastic move. Finalize is defined right there in ...

The Oracle Provider for OLEDB has some nice methods for retrieving an array from a PL/SQL procedure call and making it appear to be a Recordset object. It's a bit trickier to go in the other direction ...