What exactly is an instance in Java?

Question

Can anyone help me what is the meaning of instance in Java? And what is the difference between object and instance?

Answer 1

Basically, object and instance are the same things. We can use the name as an instance to specify the objects of type Foo. But for general talking about objects, we called as objects. Example of instance if you want something like this:

Foo foo = new Foo();

I hope this will help.

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