Why are instance initialization blocks executed before constructors

Question

I know that static blocks are initialized at the time the class is loaded and since the class is loaded only once in a program,they are initialized only once.

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Answer 1

Java compiler injects initializer blocks at the beginning of your constructors (after calling a superconstructor). To give you a better understanding I've compiled the following class

public class Foo extends SuperFoo {
    private String foo1 = "hello";
    private String foo2;
    private String foo3;
    {
        foo2 = "world";
    }
    public Foo() {
        foo3 = "!!!";
    }
}

and run it through a javap decompiler:

Compiled from "Foo.java"
public class Foo extends SuperFoo {
  private java.lang.String foo1;
  private java.lang.String foo2;
  private java.lang.String foo3;
  public Foo();
    Code:
       0: aload_0
       1: invokespecial #12                 // Method SuperFoo."":()V
       4: aload_0
       5: ldc           #14                 // String hello
       7: putfield      #16                 // Field foo1:Ljava/lang/String;
      10: aload_0
      11: ldc           #18                 // String world
      13: putfield      #20                 // Field foo2:Ljava/lang/String;
      16: aload_0
      17: ldc           #22                 // String !!!
      19: putfield      #24                 // Field foo3:Ljava/lang/String;
      22: return
}