How does the following initialization work?

[long flint]

public class VizController implements VisualizationController {

    private static VizController instance;

...

    public VizController() {
    }

    public synchronized static VizController getInstance() {
        if (instance == null) {
            instance = (VizController) Lookup.getDefault().lookup(VisualizationController.class);
            instance.initInstances();
        }
        return instance;
    }

How exactly is instantiation working here? Lookup comes from org.openide.util.Lookup, which is part of the Netbeans API, but I'm not understanding how it can create an instance without calling the new keyword.

Here's the source, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/gephi/gephi/blob/master/modules/VisualizationImpl/src/main/java/org/gephi/visualization/VizController.java

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[late sinew]

That is a very big source code xd

[long flint]

yeah heheh

have been digging through it for two days now

[late sinew]

do you happen to have this repo cloned?

[long flint]

yeah

[late sinew]

If so you can simply use an IDE towards the method definition of .lookup()

from what I can see from the imports, the Lookup class is in a package named org.openide.util.Lookup

I tried searching for a class named Lookup using the Github search feature but wasn't able to find it, so it is probably a class from a dependency of the project

[long flint]

I'll see if I can find it in the dependencies

thanks for the help btw!

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