Java constructor overloading example. Imagine a simple Java class that represents a point on a Cartesian plane. The class has two properties: x and y. The following code is an example. public class ...

The default constructor in Java initializes primitive types to their binary equivalent of zero and reference types to null. How to use Java's default constructor. Although the default constructor in ...

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 ...

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 ...