In this seventh post of my series on addressing the issue of too many parameters in a Java method or constructor, I look at using state to reduce the need to pass parameters.

In my previous post ( Part 4 of my series on dealing with too many parameters in Java methods), I looked at method overloading as one approach to providing clients with versions of methods or ...

A Java constructor has the same name as the class. A constructor in Java does not have a return type. A constructor can't be static, volatile or final. Why are Java constructors needed? The goal of a ...

i'm relatively new in Java programming and i have a few questions about contructors. i learned that the only thing they do is initialize all the variables. however, some of the examples that my ...

After its review concluded, JEP 447, Statements before super(...) (Preview), was delivered for JDK 22. This JEP, under Project Amber, proposes to allow statements that do not reference an instance bei ...

Java 23 extends import and patterns, ... In addition, it is now possible to perform complex parameter calculations for the constructor of the superclass in the child class.