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 from ...

Here's a topic I don't understand. What's the benefit of making a private constructor and a public getInstance method? I understand why you would make the constructor private: to keep someone from ...

A Constructor is a special method that is used to initialize a newly created object and is called just after the memory is allocated for the object. It can be used to initialize the objects ,to ...

// Default constructor public ConstructorDemo() { x = 0; y = 0; System.out.println("Default Constructor called: x = " + x + ", y = " + y); } // Parameterized ...

i'm relatively new in Java programming and i have a few questions about contructors. i learned that the only thing they do is initialize all the variables. however, some of the examples that my ...

JDK 25 brings powerful new features to Java and JVM developers. Here are seven new or updated features that could convince ...