This isn't a constructor; it's a method, since you've given it a return type of void. I'm rather surprised that it compiles at all, but at least according to Eclipse it's legal, although I do get a warning. I'm several hundred miles from my copy of the Java Language Specification right now so can't look it up.

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nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// www.cassiel.com

It certainaly is legal. IIRC, it was in Roedy Green's unmaintainable code how-to at one point.