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Constructors

A constructor is a special method that has the same name as the class and is used to initialize objects of a class. Constructors must not have a return type, may or may not have parameters, and are called automatically when an object is created.

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Constructors

A constructor is a special method that has the same name as the class and is used to initialize objects of a class. Constructors must not have a return type, may or may not have parameters, and are called automatically when an object is created.

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Constructors

A constructor is a special method that has the same name as the class name

* It must have the same name as the class name

* It must not have any return type, not even void, else it will be treated as an ordinary method

* May or may not have parameters

* Is called automatically whenever an object of the class is created

* Should not be of a private type, otherwise you will not be able to create an object of a class

* Should not be static because it will be invoked each time an object of a class is created

* Can be overloaded

* Cannot be inherited at all

* Used to initialize the objects of a class

If constructors are not manually declared, the java compiler automatically provides a default
constructor for a class to initialize all the instance variables of a class with their default values

Constructors are required in a program to initialize the variables with meaningful values

Default Constructors –

Non-parameterized constructors

Don’t contain any parameter

Parameterised Constructors –

Contain parameters

Values to the parameters are provided at the time of creating an object

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