Any way to _not_ call superclass constructor in Java?

Question

If I have a class:

class A {
   public A() { }
}

and another

class B extends A {
   public B() { }
}

is t

Answer 1

Assuming you mean

class B extends A {
     public B() { }
}

then sure you can

class B extends A {
     public B() {
         this(abort());
     }
     private B(Void dummy) {
         /* super(); */
     }
     private static Void abort() {
         throw null;
     }
}

Not very useful. The interface [not Java keyword] to class A says that you need to run its constructor in order to construct it, not unreasonably. The exception is that serialisable classes are constructed without calling the constructors of the serialisable classes.