constructor VS static method

can a constructor be compared to a static method because of the following reasons:

1)both static methods and contructors belong only to the class in whic they are defined.

2)both of them can be overloaded but cannot be overridden

Except for the difference that a constructor cannot be called explicitly while a static method can be?

[357 byte] By [vissu_kalavaa] at [2007-11-27 10:22:10]