What is the exact meaning of instantiate in JAVA

Question

I\'am a newbie in JAVA and this came across this word called. \"A class i.e. created inside a method is called local inner class in java. If you want to invoke the methods o

Answer 1

To instantiate a class means to create an instance of the class. In other words, if you have a class like this:

public class Dog {
    public void bark() {
        System.out.println("woof");
    }
}

You would instantiate it like this:

Dog myDog = new Dog();

Instantiating is when you use the new keyword to actually create an object of your class.