When to use overloaded constructors As you can see, it can make sense to perform constructor overloading even in a simple Java class that that has only two properties. For more complex classes, it's ...

Java's default constructor allows developers to create instances of classes when no other constructors are explicitly defined. The default constructor in Java takes no arguments -- it simply ...

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 ...