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;
    }

}