Properties and methods make Java classes interesting ... it's not uncommon to have five or more highly parameterized overloaded constructors. A developer that uses the Point class could use any of the ...

As outlined in Item #2 of the Second Edition of Effective Java, there are several disadvantages to using constructors with large parameter lists. To help illustrate, I include a code listing below.

Java is an object-oriented programming language. To create objects and meaningfully initialize them, a developer must use a Java constructor ... most Java classes provide non-default constructors, ...