Constructors are member functions or methods of a class that have the same name as the class name and are used to initialize the members of a class. Such methods are invoked when an instance of the ...

There are several different ways to initialize static fields. In most cases, the worst choice is a static constructor. Handling literals as constants provides the best performance. For values that ...

OK, I can make a new class. I then make a default constructor explicitly because I want it to do "stuff" like have a shared field called ClassCount that it increments each time the class is ...

In the post NetBeans 7.2: Refactoring Parameterized Constructor As Builder, I looked at how NetBeans 7.2 supports refactoring a constructor to a builder as described in Item 2 of the Second Edition of ...

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