What is the order of the Constructors in this Java Code?

Question

Here is the code, I defined two class named Father and Son, and create them in the main function:

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] ar         


        

Answer 1

Here is what gets called:

new Son()
=>  
  Son._init
   =>  first every constructor calls super()
      Father._init
         Object._init
         who()  => is overridden, so prints "son"
         tell(name) => name is private, so cannot be overridden => "father"
   who()  => "son"
   tell(name)  => "son"   

Lessons to learn:

• private fields and methods are private. Cannot be overridden.
• Do not call methods from constructors that can be overridden. This can call methods on half-initialized class state (not happening in your case, though).