Initializing the properties of a class is the job of a Java constructor. When a class has a variety of properties to initialize, developers often provide a set of overloaded Java constructors to ...

Java's default constructor lets developers create instances of classes when an explicitly defined constructor does not exist. Here's how it works.

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 ...