Java Constructor Overloading

Question

I\'m new with Java and I\'m having trouble understanding the constructor issue, I have looked at many tutorials and still I\'m having difficult to understand why we use construc

Answer 1

Actually, if you want to have 10000 constructor, you can as long a signature are differents.

public class People {
    public People(String name, int age) {
        ...
    }
    public People(String name) {
        ...
    }
}

You can construct your object in a different way. You can see an example by yourself looking at : the java String class wich has a plenty of constructors.

And yes, all constructors have the same name of his class.

But this will not works :

public class People {
    public People(String name, int age) {
        ...
    }
    public People(String name, int numberOfLegs) {
        ...
    }
}

Since you have two constructors with the same signature