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Re: Static class VS final class
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Tue Oct 3 21:43:22 1995
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 09:18:50 -0700
From: avh@jakarta.Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: edith@pencom.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Edith,
> Can someone explain the different between a static class and a final class
> for me? Both of them cannot be subclassed and instantiated.
I'm not sure what a static class"` is, there is no such concept in Java.
Do you perhaps mean abstract class? An abstract class can't be instanciated
directly, it needs to be subclassed. A final class is a class that can't
be subclassed, but it can be instanciated.
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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