When does the Constructor gets called in java?

Question

When does the Constructor get called?

1. Before object creation.
2. During object creation.
3. After object creation.

Answer 1

It gets called at object creation. The memory must be reserved first for the object, otherwise the constructor code could not run. So maybe we could say after object creation. Also note that initialization code written in the class gets called before the constructor code.

public Ex {

    int xVal = -1;
    int yVal;

    public Ex() {
        // xVal is already -1.
        //yVal defaults to 0.
    }
}