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posted 8/19/2001 3:59 PM

chao-long liao Ranch Hand Joined: Jul 29, 2001 Posts: 78

"Only constructors can invoke constructors". What's the meaning of the above statement ? The folling code is the example of method invoke constructor?? public class A { public static void main(String arg[]){ new A(); } A(){} } -------------------------------thanks for help

swati bannore Ranch Hand Joined: Oct 18, 2000 Posts: 201

posted 8/19/2001 4:47 PM

Hi, I shall try this..and correct me if I'm wrong. Here when u say.. new A(), you are actually creating object of type A. What they mean by constructor invoking constructor..is when you have overloaded constructor in a class..
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Swati Kale SC JP SC WC D Ashik Uzzaman Ranch Hand Joined: Jul 05, 2001 Posts: 2370
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posted 8/19/2001 4:58 PM

Originally posted by Swati Bannore :

What they mean by constructor invoking constructor..is when you have overloaded constructor in a class..

And swati, don't u think that when we r implicitely or explicitely invoking construtors in subclasses using super() or super(p1,p2...) then also constructors r invoking constructors? -----------------azaman

Ashik Uzzaman Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce.com, San Francisco, C A, USA.

chao-long liao Ranch Hand Joined: Jul 29, 2001 Posts: 78

posted 8/19/2001 6:37 PM

public class A { public static void main(String arg[]){

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new A(); } A(){} } But the code is "method call constructor",and the statement "only constructor can invoke constructor" is true or false? ------------------------------thanks for help

swati bannore Ranch Hand Joined: Oct 18, 2000 Posts: 201

posted 8/19/2001 6:50 PM

yeah..azman...i missed that option...moral of the Story is ..only Constructors can Invoke Constructors... thx

Muhammad Farooq Ranch Hand Joined: May 08, 2001 Posts: 356

posted 8/19/2001 9:01 PM

It also means that the constructor in the subclasses can also invoke the super class construdtor . --Farooq

Muhammad Farooq<br />Sun C ertified Programmer for Java 2 Platform<br />Oracle8i C ertified Professional Database Administrator

Cameron Park Ranch Hand Joined: Apr 06, 2001 Posts: 371

posted 8/20/2001 7:09 AM

Of course it's false. You can invoke a constructor any where you like, including outside of a method like this: class T{

Cameron Park Ranch Hand Joined: Apr 06, 2001 Posts: 371

posted 8/20/2001 7:10 AM

Of course it's false. You can invoke a constructor any where you like, including outside of a method like this: class T{ String a = new String("Hello Dear Constructor!"); }

swati bannore Ranch Hand Joined: Oct 18, 2000 Posts: 201

posted 8/20/2001 10:46 AM

I think, question is refering to calling a constructor like we call a method...and NOT calling a constructor for creating an Object..u try giving a plain call to constructor from any of the methods...and see what complier tells you...It says..Only Constructors Can Call Constructors..

Muhammad Farooq Ranch Hand

posted 8/20/2001 1:08 PM

I think here we are mixing contruvtor invoking (with the key word this() or
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Joined: May 08, 2001 Posts: 356

super()) with object initialization (with the key word new) --Farooq

Mikael Jonasson Ranch Hand Joined: May 16, 2001 Posts: 158

posted 8/20/2001 3:34 PM

The only place you can call a constructor directly is inside another constructor (you can choose between another constructor in the same class, or one in a super-class). The only thing you can do outside a constructor, is create a new class (which will call the constructor, but YOU don't call it). /Mike

I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.

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