Explain instance in java

Hi Friends, can you explain instance in java. In general instance means "occurence of something" . In java what is instance.

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in java, an instance is an occurrence of the object.

Someone writes a java file to define a class. This is like a blueprint on what the object looks like and what it does.

Just like you can use the same blueprint over and over to build the same house many times, you can do the same thing with a class. you can make many instances, each of which live in their own place independently of each other.

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Useful answer, but it would have been easier to read with the CODE button. As you are new, I have edited your post.

hi
instance is nothing but the object of the class...
we can create any no of instance per class..
for example...
a blue print of the cycle will be a class and a single cycle will be the instance...

If you think of a class as a data structure or a type definition. You can think of instance as a snap shot that shows you what values each of the constituent elements of that data structure have at a particular time.

If class is an abstraction. An object is concrete implementation.
For e.g: Chair is an abstraction(an idea).It is intangible. A revolving chair is an implementation of the idea. It is tangible.

Better to say "chair" is abstract, and "a red chair" is concrete. "Revolving chair" would be a subtype of "chair".

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Better to say "chair" is abstract, and "a red chair" is concrete. "Revolving chair" would be a subtype of "chair".

My mistake.

Yes, color would be an attribute;"Red" is the color that the chair instance has. "Revolution" is a functionality so subtyping would be a better fit to describe it.

Thanks CR!