What are all the different ways to create an object in Java?

There are various ways:

Through Class.newInstance.
Through Constructor.newInstance.
Through deserialisation (uses the no-args constructor of the most derived non-serialisable base class).
Through Object.clone (does not call a constructor).
Through JNI (should call a constructor).
Through any other method that calls a new for you.
I guess you could describe class loading as creating new objects (such as interned Strings).
A literal array as part of the initialisation in a declaration (no constructor for arrays).
The array in a "varargs" (...) method call (no constructor for arrays).
Non-compile time constant string concatenation (happens to produce at least four objects, on a typical implementation).
Causing an exception to be created and thrown by the runtime. For instance throw null; or "".toCharArray()[0].
Oh, and boxing of primitives (unless cached), of course.
JDK8 should have lambdas (essentially concise anonymous inner classes), which are implicitly converted to objects.
For completeness (and Paŭlo Ebermann), there's some syntax with the new keyword as well.

There are four different ways to create objects in java:

A. Using new keyword
This is the most common way to create an object in java. Almost 99% of objects are created in this way.

 MyObject object = new MyObject();

B. Using Class.forName()
If we know the name of the class & if it has a public default constructor we can create an object in this way.

MyObject object = (MyObject) Class.forName("subin.rnd.MyObject").newInstance();

C. Using clone()
The clone() can be used to create a copy of an existing object.

MyObject anotherObject = new MyObject();
MyObject object = (MyObject) anotherObject.clone();

D. Using object deserialization
Object deserialization is nothing but creating an object from its serialized form.

ObjectInputStream inStream = new ObjectInputStream(anInputStream );
MyObject object = (MyObject) inStream.readObject();

You can read them from here.

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