Top Most Java Best Practices to Follow while Overloading Method and Constructor

Method overloading in Java needs to be use carefully. Poorly overloaded method add not only add confusions among developers who use that but also they are error prone and leaves your program on compiler's mercy to select proper method. It's best to avoid issues related to method overloading in Java by following some Java best practices. For those who doesn’t know What is method overloading in Java, method overloading means declaring two method with same name but different method signatures. This is generally done to create method which operates on different data types e.g. System.out.println() which is overloaded to accept different types of parameters like String, double, int etc, see this Java tutorial on method overloading and static vs dynamic binding for more details. By the way all of these Java best practices which are explained in context of method overloading are equally applicable to constructor overloading in Java, because in terms of overloading method and constructors are almost same.

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