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

basically constructors are called to initialize the values of the instance variables except the case for default constructors. However, this initialization of the instance variables are done in 4 steps (as applicable):

1. variables are initialized with default values (ints with 0, chars with u\0000 etc.)
2. variables are initialized with explicit initialization values
3. initialized with static blocks
4. constructors are called