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If you are familier with Singleton pattern which enforces only one instance of a particular class . they have private() constructor to avoid creating object outside of a class. and they usually have a
method which returns the single available instance to the caller.
making a constructor private also prevent a class from being subclasses because subclass can not access private constructor.
If for some reason you do not want your class to be instantiated by any other class by saying New MyClass(), then you can provide the getInstance method which will return the object of the class. This is done when you want to limit the instances of the class.
The example of the getInstance() method instead of the new MyClass() is a Calender class. You are not allowed to say new Calendar(), if you need a Calender instance you have to use the static method getInstace() (Calender.getInstance).
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