Sounds like a beginner's question.
There isn't a lot of difference, really; they both refer to the same thing.
Any representation of anything in your
Java (or other OO) programming is an object; each object derives from a class. When you have an object bar which derives from class Foo, you can say that bar is
an instance of [the class] Foo.
That any good?
CR
[ June 14, 2006: Message edited by: Campbell Ritchie ]