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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...