What's the benefit of making a private constructor and a public getInstance method? I understand why you would make the constructor private: to keep someone from instantiating a class.

Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields ...

In my two immediately previous posts, I looked at reducing the number of parameters required for a constructor or method invocation via custom types and parameter objects. In this post, I look at ...

2. Classes & Constructors Java is a class-based Object Oriented Programming Language meaning that it realizes the concept of objects by allowing you to define classes which have member methods and ...

It's important to understand that if you do not call the init () method after you use the createObject () method, ColdFusion will use the default constructor for the given class.

It's important to understand that if you do not call the init () method after you use the createObject() method, ColdFusion will use the default constructor for the given class.