Design Patterns Java™ Workbook

Introducing Construction (Chapter 14)

SOLUTION 14.1

Special rules regarding constructors include the following. You must use new to invoke a constructor. Constructor names must match the class name. This results in the oddity that, unlike most methods, constructor names normally begin with an uppercase letter. If you do not supply a constructor for a class, Java will provide a default. You can invoke other constructors with this() and super() so long as this invocation is the first statement in a constructor. There are also several rules governing the order of field initialization and special rules for the instantiation of arrays.

SOLUTION 14.2

A constructor that allows Fountain to compile is: public Fountain(String name) { super(name); } This constructor ...