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 instantiating a class.

There is a reason why Java method modifiers exist. If you call public methods internally and don't understand why, your developers could face major class issues.

How to rewrite private method in Java In this note I will explain how to rewrite private method in Java using dark magic like code generation. Unfortunately you can not override private methods using ...

Oracle's plan to eliminate access to sun.misc.Unsafe would have drastic consequences for the Java ecosystem, according to some opponents. Making the API public is a proposed alternative.

Key Java proponents are up in arms over the planned elimination of private API capabilities, specifically sun.misc.Unsafe, in the upcoming Java Standard Edition 9 release. Although an officially ...