default values in constructors?

[developerinlondon]

Does Java have a way of passing default values to constructors?
eg
public MyConstructor(ResultSet rs, String ip, DataSource ds,
String parserURL = null) {
...
}

this is the version that doesnt work in java.

 

[timw]

There is something in 1.5. Go and have a look on the Sun site.

 

[Diancecht]

You can alwaus check in the constructor if the values are informed.

Cheers,

Dian

 

[Naug]

The way I do it is provide 2 constructors - the short one calls the long one supplying the defaults