Here's a topic I don't understand. What's the benefit of making a private constructor and a public getInstance method? I understand why you would make the constructor private: to keep someone from ...

I know this was previously discussed on #1568, but the discussion wasn't conclusive and the team seemed open to the change, so I'd like to re-open it for feedback. An example description of why this ...

Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields, ...