Method overloading is a programming technique that allows developers to use the same method name multiple times in the same class, but with different parameters.

Java constructor overloading example. Imagine a simple Java class that represents a point on a Cartesian plane. The class has two properties: x and y. The following code is an example. public class ...

This illustrates a weakness of dealing with too many parameters with simple method overloading (overloading methods with same name based only on number and types of parameters).