Constructors play a key role in all object-oriented programming languages, and Java is no exception. Every class a Java developer creates needs a constructor. Constructors perform numerous important ...

Shortly after the Second Edition of Josh Bloch‘s Effective Java was released, I borrowed a colleague’s copy to browse it and consider purchasing a copy of my own despite already owning a copy of the ...

A constructor's name must be the same as the class, but there can be many different overloaded constructors, provided their list of parameters is uniquely different. Constructors may be explicitly ...

In the post NetBeans 7.2: Refactoring Parameterized Constructor As Builder , I looked at how NetBeans 7.2 supports refactoring a constructor to a builder as described in Item 2 of the Second ...

Structures can now have a default constructor but you have to be careful how you use the structure to ensure that your constructor actually runs.