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.

{ /** * Parameterized constructor accepting Long for instantiation of BigDecimal. * * @param val Long parameter intended, but not actually used, for * instantiation of BigDecimal.

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 ...