That's why most Java classes provide non-default constructors, also known as parameterized constructors. For example, we might want the calling program to tell us if the car is a stick shift or not.

As you can see, it can make sense to perform constructor overloading even in a simple Java class that that has only two properties. For more complex classes, it's not uncommon to have five or more ...

The first seven posts of my series of dealing with too many parameters expected in Java methods focused on alternative approaches to reduce the number of parameters a method or constructor expects.

A parameter is local to its method or constructor ... An access level is an indicator of who can access a field, method, or constructor. Java supports four access levels: private, public ...