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Can now create a new Person via:

Person guitarist1 = new Person (“Clapton”);

Person guitarist2 = new Person (“Hendrix”, 27);

Determining which constructor to invoke requires unique signature.

Signature means “identifier and parameter list”

Thus, one cannot do:

public Person (String strNewFirstName) {

. . .

} // of constructor

public Person (String strNewLastName) {

. . .

} // of constructor

due to ambiguity.

Java Constructors