Optimizing overloaded Java constructors. These overloaded constructors repeat the same basic initialization steps, and that's a code smell. If you want an overloaded Java constructor to call another ...

A Java constructor has the same name as the class. A constructor in Java does not have a return type. A constructor can't be static, volatile or final. Why are Java constructors needed? The goal of a ...

Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields ...

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 ...

Constructor overloading. Constructor overloading is a technique in Java in which a class can have any number of constructors that differ in parameter lists.The compiler differentiates these ...