Error: java.lang.InstantiationError

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 run time if the definition of a class has incompatibly changed.

Authors:
@author unascribed
Version:
@version 1.12, 12/19/03
Since:
@since JDK1.0

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