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§1.51 Class InstantiationError

public  class  java.lang.InstantiationError
    extends  java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError  (I-§1.50)
{
        // Constructors
    public InstantiationError();	§1.51.1
    public InstantiationError(String  s);	§1.51.2
}

Thrown when an application tries to use the Java new construct to instantiate an abstract class or an interface.

Normally, this error is caught by the compiler; this error can only occur at runtime if the definition of a class has incompatibably changed.

InstantiationError

public InstantiationError()

Constructs an InstantiationError with no detail message.

InstantiationError

public InstantiationError(String  s)

Constructs an InstantiationError with the specified detail message.

Parameters:: s -the detail message

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