The Object-Oriented Thought Process, Fourth Edition

Constructors

This Cabbie class contains two constructors. We know they are constructors because they have the same name as the class: Cabbie. The first constructor is the default constructor:

public Cabbie() {      name = null;      myCab = null;}

Technically, this is not a default constructor provided by the system. Recall that the compiler will provide a default constructor if you do not specify any constructor for a class. By definition, the reason it is called a default constructor here is because it is a constructor with no arguments, which, in effect, overrides the compiler’s default constructor.

If you provide a constructor with arguments, the system will not provide a default constructor. Although this can seem complicated, the rule is ...