Java - Method executed prior to Default Constructor

Constructor is called prior to method. The execution of method occurs after that which is a part of object creation in which instance variables are evaluated. This could be better understand from following code.

class SuperClass{
    SuperClass(){
        System.out.println("Super constructor");
    }
}
public class ChkCons extends SuperClass{

    int var = getVal();

    ChkCons() {
        System.out.println("I'm Default Constructor.");
    }

    public int getVal() {
        System.out.println("I'm in Method.");
        return 10;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ChkCons c = new ChkCons();

    }

}

The above code has following output

Super constructor
I'm in Method.
I'm Default Constructor.

Here the compiler automatically adds super(); as the first statement in ChkCons() constructor, and hence it is called prior to the getVal() method.

Instance variable initialization expressions such as int var = getVal(); are evaluated after the super class constructor is executed but prior to the execution of the current class constructor's body.

Therefore getVal() is called before the body of the ChkCons constructor is executed.