In this blog post, I look at the concept of Java synthetic methods . The post summarizes what a Java synthetic method is, how one can be created and identified, and the implications of Java ...

This Java tip introduces additional concepts and techniques related to fields and methods–namely field constants, field-access rules, chaining instance method calls, pass-by-value arguments ...

The goal of a lambda expression in Java is to implement a single method. All Java methods have an argument list and a body, so it should come as no surprise that these two elements are an important ...

A public method should never be called by another public method within the same class hierarchy. It should only be called by other classes via the classes' public interface. Class calls might not be ...