“A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.”

“Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.”

“One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.”

“A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.”