constructor question

[Kartik Mahadevan]

Hi

I came to know that in a inherited structure like a inherits b, b inherits c etc with each having a constructor when i create a object first constructor of Object is executed . Does it mean that memory for any object is actually defined in the Object(Object is the base class for all existing java objects) constuctor method ?
Also please help me with
what will happen if I create an A object and A doesn't have a constructor
defined whereas B has a constructor defined ?
What if in the above case B has a constructor with 2 arguments and I have to call it in A's constructor ?

Thanks

[David Ulicny]

Why you don't try write such class where A has default constructor and B has constructor with parameters? You will see what is the result.

But there will be compilation error.

[Michael Ernest]

It means that every new type has some 'Object-ness' to it, yes. In recent versions of Java many elements of the Object class are made static to account for that fact.

Every new type has a constructor, no matter what. You can write the access rights to a constructor so that no one outside the class can call it, but there still must be a constructor for every class. It makes no difference if a class provides its own or if the compiler silently inserts one to maintain the chaining process back to java.lang.Object, the basae supertype.