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 ...

That's why most Java classes provide non-default constructors, also known as parameterized constructors. For example, we might want the calling program to tell us if the car is a stick shift or not.

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 ...

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 ...