How to Count Number of Instances of a Class

Question

Can anyone tell me how to count the number of instances of a class?

Here\'s my code

public class Bicycle {

    //instance variables
    public int          


        

Answer 1

One basic approach is to declare a static numeric member field thats incremented each time the constructor is invoked.

public class Bicycle {

    //instance variables
    public int gear, speed, seatHeight;
    public String color;
    public static int bicycleCount = 0;

    //constructor
    public Bicycle(int gear, int speed, int seatHeight, String color) {
        gear = 0;
        speed = 0;
        seatHeight = 0;
        color ="Unknown";
        bicycleCount++;      
    }
    ...
  }