What's the point in having an abstract class with no abstract methods?

Question

Can have an abstract class implementing all of its methods-- with no abstract methods in it.

Eg.:

public abstract class someClass          


        

Answer 1

As you pointed out, you can prevent the class from being instantiated by making it's constructor private. Othere than that, there is no benefit whatsoever. This is probably supported just to provide language completeness.