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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The syntax of a Java constructor is simple. For the most part, it follows the same rules as Java methods with the following exceptions: A Java constructor has the same name as the class. A constructor ...

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 ...

Limitations of reflective method lookup. By Paul Holser; July 24, 2001; REFLECTION IS A powerful and intriguing feature of Java. Using the facilities of the class java.lang.Class and the Reflection ...