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 ...

That's why most Java classes provide non-default constructors, also known as parameterized constructors. For example, we might want the calling program to tell us if the car is a stick shift or not.

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 ...

If you want an overloaded Java constructor to call another overloaded constructor, you can use the this() method. With it, you can highly optimize the previous code. public class Point { int x; int y; ...