The first seven posts of my series of dealing with too many parameters expected in Java methods focused on alternative approaches to reduce the number of parameters a method or constructor expects.

Java 5 introduced a variable arguments (varargs) feature to reduce the clutter when passing an array to a method or constructor. To use varargs, declare the method or constructor with ...

The default constructor in Java takes no arguments -- it simply initializes reference types to null and primitive types to the binary equivalent of zero. That means instance variables are assigned as ...

Constructor overloading in Java occurs when a class has multiple constructors ... you must provide a constructor that takes two arguments. However, it might also be common in the application to create ...

import module java.base; import module java.sql ... In addition, it is now possible to perform complex parameter calculations for the constructor of the superclass in the child class.