Re: Simple question about instantiating

Hi,

I am a little bit confused with how OOP works with respect to instantiating.
For example take the following code below. When each of the 10 c1 objects
are instantiated from the CountTest() class, do they not each have their own
instanceCount class variable??? It does not seem to be so from this code
that I took from a book. In my thinking every time an object is created it
initializes the instanceCount class variable to 0 and therefore the count
would always be 1 after the constructor is run and the instanceCount is
incremented. Can someone clarify what actually happens behind the scenes
when an object is instantiated with the class variables.

TIA

Roy

public class CountTestApp
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        printCount();
        for (int i =0; i < 10; i++)
        {
            CountTest c1 = new CountTest();
            printCount();
        }
    }

    private static void printCount()
    {
        System.out.println("There are now " + CountTest.getInstanceCount() +
" instances");
    }
}

class CountTest
{
    private static int instanceCount = 0;
    public CountTest()
    {
        instanceCount++;
    }
    public static int getInstanceCount()
    {
        return instanceCount;
    }

}