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This approach of having many overloaded versions constructors, each accepting a different number of parameters, is known as telescoping constructors and has been labeled an anti-pattern by some ...
In the Second Edition of Effective Java, Josh Bloch introduces use of the builder pattern in Item #2 for dealing with constructors that require too many parameters.
When to use overloaded constructors As you can see, it can make sense to perform constructor overloading even in a simple Java class that that has only two properties. For more complex classes, it's ...
What is a default constructor in Java? While a constructor is required to create an instance of a class, developers aren't required to add a constructor to every class they create. If a class does not ...