When a class has a variety of properties to initialize, developers often provide a set of overloaded Java constructors to initialize those properties in many different and meaningful ways. Constructor ...

it is known as constructor overloading, and it follows the same rules as method overloading in Java. However, those advanced topics are much easier to digest when a developer learns the most ...

The first half of this introduction to Java inheritance teaches you how to use the extends keyword to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent class constructors and methods, and ...

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 ...