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What is the Difference between Class and Instance

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Last Update: August 13, 2008 Asked by: pohme_pohme

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June 26, 2008 15:29:11

gkay09

Member Since: June 2008 Contribution: 2

RE: What is the Difference between Class and Instance

A Class is actually a blueprint or a representation of how an Object has to be instanciated. Whereas an Object is called as the Instance of a Class.

For Eg:
Class can be assumed as a blueprint of a car, describing how it has to look, how it has to work, so on..
Whereas the Object is the real car.

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June 26, 2008 15:35:03

gkay09

Member Since: June 2008 Contribution: 2

RE: What is the Difference between Class and Instance

Adding to the above answer,

The instance is the actual object created at runtime

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August 13, 2008 10:46:40

vikas_3000

Member Since: August 2008 Contribution: 5

RE: What is the Difference between Class and Instance

Class describes the general behaviour of objects where as instance is the condition of class at a particular time (run time).

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