We saw in the previous lessons a few methods that belong to the String class, like the constructor that takes a character array ... usually ok to have multiple variables referencing the same String ...

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 ...

I wrote about the NetBeans hint “Overridable Method Call in Constructor” in the blog post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints ... depends on instance level variables that have not yet ...