The first seven posts of my series of dealing with too many parameters expected in Java methods focused on alternative approaches to reduce the number of parameters a method or constructor expects ...

NetBeans 7.2 makes it easy to refactor the constructor with the long parameter list in the above example to take advantage of an instance of Builder.

The Java language spec lists 10 Java constructor types, including default, no-args, canonical, private parameterized, generic, overloaded and anonymous.

Java's canonical constructor Keen-eyed Java developers will notice that the above example uses a parameterized constructor to create an instance of the Java record, even though no constructor is ...