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What's the difference between and instance and an object?

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Let's say I have the following...

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyStack stack = new MyStack();

        System.out.println("Instance of Object: "
                + (stack instanceof Object));

        System.out.println("Instance of MyStack: "
                + (stack instanceof MyStack));


    }
}//end Main

class MyStack {

    private int size = 0;

    public int tripleIt(int newSize) {
        size = newSize;
        return 3 * size;
    }
}

I get the following output when I run this code...

Instance of Object: true
Instance of MyStack: true


How can there be an instance of MyStack when I never made a
constructor for it? That is, I never create a MyStack object.


Chad

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What's the difference between and instance and an object? Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 09:08 -0700
  Re: What's the difference between an instance and an object? Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 09:16 -0700
  Re: What's the difference between and instance and an object? Patrick <patrick@antispam.invalid> - 2011-06-06 18:18 +0200
    Re: What's the difference between and instance and an object? Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 09:33 -0700
      Re: What's the difference between and instance and an object? Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-06-06 18:54 +0200
        Re: What's the difference between and instance and an object? Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 10:11 -0700
        Re: What's the difference between and instance and an object? Abu Yahya <abu_yahya@invalid.com> - 2011-06-08 21:21 +0530
          Re: What's the difference between and instance and an object? Abu Yahya <abu_yahya@invalid.com> - 2011-06-08 21:24 +0530
            Re: What's the difference between and instance and an object? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-06-08 09:33 -0700
              Re: What's the difference between and instance and an object? Abu Yahya <abu_yahya@invalid.com> - 2011-06-08 22:07 +0530
          Re: What's the difference between and instance and an object? Lewis Bloch <lewisbloch@google.com> - 2011-06-10 11:06 -0700
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