Thrown when an application tries to create an instance of a class using the newInstance method in class Class, but the specified class object cannot be instantiated. The instantiation can fail for a variety of reasons including but not limited to:

• the class object represents an abstract class, an interface, an array class, a primitive type, or void
• the class has no nullary constructor

version	1.19, 11/30/05
since	JDK1.0
See also	newInstance()