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 ...

Because a constructor initializes an instance of a class, they are never inherited; however, the subclass must call a superclass constructor as it is an extension of a superclass object. This can be ...

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 ...

To learn Java, you must understand constructors. Because constructors share some characteristics with methods, ... Compiler automatically supplies a default call to the superclass constructor: ...