What are the best practices for determining the tasks of Constructor, Initialization and Reset methods

Question

This is a general OOP question although I am designing in Java. I\'m not trying to solve a particular problem, just to think through some design principles.
From my experien

Answer 1

Interesting. I especially find this construction useful if you have an object that needs to perform IO operations. I do not want anything to perform IO operations direct or indirectly in their constructor. It makes the object a nightmare to use.