Private Constructor trap

[imran anwar]

hi all...
what is the 'private constructor' trap that Ajith refers to, in his potential traps list?
are there some specific conditions under which a private constructor is not supposed to be used?
thanks

[Marcelo Sousa Ancelmo]

Hi imran
Whit a private construtor you can't make an instance of the Class in another class, I think that the best example about the private construtor is in Math Class, the construtor of Math is private, so you can't do:
public class Test {
Math myMath = new Math();
}

[imran anwar]

why is Math class's constructor private?

[Roy Ben Ami]

becauase sun doesnt want you to make an instance of the class Math. so you cant do this:
Math x=new Math(); // Wrong!!
you dont need to do that because all the Math methods/fields are STATIC. thats means you can sue the class name to access them without creating an instance of that class.

like Math.round(5.5);