My program makes 5 instances of a class; Why?

Question

I removed or commented out as much as possible.
I still get five instances of the RecordObj class. There are five methods in that class, other than the getters and setters, so I suspect the problem involves those methods, but I don't know how a method (that is not called) could cause its containing class to be instantiated. Does anybody see what I can't?
recordObj_ (static)= 0
recordObj_ before making Connection = 1
recordObj_ after making Connection = 1
recordObj_ before making Connection = 2
recordObj_ after making Connection = 2
recordObj_ before making Connection = 3
recordObj_ after making Connection = 3
recordObj_ before making Connection = 4
recordObj_ after making Connection = 4
recordObj_ before making Connection = 5
recordObj_ after making Connection = 5
arr.length = 4
and here are the calling class and the class being called:import org.omg.CORBA.*;
import org.omg.CosNaming.*;
import hw5Corba.*;
public class RecordServer2
  static Record[] arr;
  public static void main(String args[])
      RecordObj impl = new RecordObj();
      arr = impl.getRecords();
      System.out.println("arr.length = "+arr.length);
import java.sql.*;
import hw5Corba.*;
public class RecordObj extends _RecordImplBase
  static Connection connection = null;
  ResultSet rs;
  private String
    user = null,
    firstName =null,
    lastName=null,
    streetAddress=null,
    city=null,
    country=null,
    eMail=null,
    phone=null,
    fax=null;
  static int recordObj_ =0;
  private int recordNumber;
  static
    System.out.println("recordObj_ (static)= "+recordObj_+"\n\n");
  public RecordObj()
    recordObj_++;
   System.out.println("recordObj_ before making Connection = "+ recordObj_);
   connection = SingletonDBConnector.getInstance().getConnection();
    //RecordServerGui gui = new RecordServerGui(connection);
    System.out.println("recordObj_ after making Connection  = "+ recordObj_);
  public void user(String param)
    user = param;
  public void setUser(String param)
    user(param);
  public String user()
    return user;
  public String getUser()
    return user();
  public void recordNumber(int recNum)
    recordNumber = recNum;
  public void setRecordNumber(int recNumber)
    recordNumber(recNumber);
  public int recordNumber()
    return recordNumber();
  public int getRecordNumber()
    return recordNumber();
  public void firstName(String first)
    firstName =first;
  public void setFirstName(String first)
    firstName(first);
  public String firstName()
    return firstName;
  public String getFirstName()
    return firstName();
  public void lastName(String last)
    lastName = last;
  public void setLastName(String last)
    lastName(last);
  public String lastName()
    return lastName;
  public String getLastName()
    return lastName();
  public void streetAddress(String add)
    this.streetAddress = add;
  public void setStreetAddr(String add)
    streetAddress(add);
  public String streetAddress()
    return streetAddress;
  public String getStreetAddr()
    return streetAddress();
  public void city(String city)
    this.city = city;
  public void setCity(String _city)
    city(_city);
  public String city()
    return city;
  public String getCity()
    return city();
  public void country(String country)
    this.country = country;
  public void setCountry(String _country)
    country(_country);
  public String country()
    return country;
  public String getCountry()
    return country();
  public void eMail(String email)
    this.eMail = email;
  public void setEmail(String _email)
    eMail(_email);
  public String eMail()
    return eMail;
  public String getEmail()
    return eMail();
  public void phone(String phone)
    this.phone = phone;
  public void setPhone(String _phone)
    phone(_phone);
  public String phone()
    return phone;
  public String getPhone()
    return phone();
  public void fax(String fax)
    this.fax = fax;
  public void setFax(String _fax)
    fax(_fax);
  public String fax()
    return fax;
  public String getFax()
    return fax();
  public Record[] getRecords()
    Record r = null;
    Record[] allRecs = null;
    int index = 0;
    String selectAll = "SELECT * FROM Record ORDER BY Record_number";
    try
      Statement s = connection.createStatement();
      ResultSet recs = s.executeQuery(selectAll);
      while(recs.next())
        index++;
      allRecs = new Record[index];
      //cycle through records again, adding each
      //to the array
      index = 0;
      recs = s.executeQuery(selectAll);
      while(recs.next())
        r = new RecordObj();
        r.setRecordNumber(recs.getInt(1));
        r.setFirstName(recs.getString(2));
        r.setLastName(recs.getString(3));
        r.setStreetAddr(recs.getString(4));
        r.setCity(recs.getString(5));
        r.setCountry(recs.getString(6));
        r.setEmail(recs.getString(7));
        r.setPhone(recs.getString(8));
        r.setFax(recs.getString(9));
        allRecs[index] = r;
      catch (SQLException ex)
        exceptionCode(ex);
    return allRecs;
  public void deleteRecord(int num)
    //SQL for Records table
    String command =
    "DELETE FROM Record WHERE Record_number ="
      + Integer.toString(num);
    //SQL for UserLog table
    String timeOn = new java.util.Date().toString();
    String logCommand ="INSERT INTO UserLog VALUES(?,?,?)";
    try
      //Records table
      PreparedStatement delRec = connection.prepareStatement(command);
      int rowsUpdated = delRec.executeUpdate();
      System.out.println("rows affectd by delRecord " + rowsUpdated);
      //UserLog table
      PreparedStatement logSt = connection.prepareStatement(logCommand);
      logSt.setString(1,user);
      logSt.setString(2,timeOn);
      logSt.setString(3,command);
      int logRowsUpdated = logSt.executeUpdate();
     catch (SQLException ex)
       exceptionCode(ex);
  public void newRecord(Record r)
    //SQL for Records table
    String prefix ="INSERT INTO Record VALUES";
    String suffix = "(?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)";
    //SQL for UserLog table
    String timeOn = new java.util.Date().toString();
    String action = prefix + "(" + r.getRecordNumber()+ ", "
    + r.getFirstName()+ ", " + r.getLastName()+ ", "
    + r.getStreetAddr()+ ", " +r.getCity()+ ", "
    + r.getCountry()+ ", " +r.getEmail()+ ", "
    + r.getPhone()+ ", " +r.getFax()+")";
    String command ="INSERT INTO UserLog VALUES(?,?,?)";
    try
      PreparedStatement newRec = connection.prepareStatement(prefix + suffix);
      newRec.setInt(1,r.getRecordNumber());
      newRec.setString(2,r.getFirstName());
      newRec.setString(3,r.getLastName());
      newRec.setString(4,r.getStreetAddr());
      newRec.setString(5,r.getCity());
      newRec.setString(6,r.getCountry());
      newRec.setString(7,r.getEmail());
      newRec.setString(8,r.getPhone());
      newRec.setString(9,r.getFax());
      int rowsUpdated = newRec.executeUpdate();
      System.out.println("rows affectd by newRecord " + rowsUpdated);
      PreparedStatement logSt = connection.prepareStatement(command);
      logSt.setString(1,user);
      logSt.setString(2,timeOn);
      logSt.setString(3,action);
      int logRowsUpdated = logSt.executeUpdate();
      System.out.println("rows affectd by logging " + logRowsUpdated);
    catch (SQLException ex)
      exceptionCode(ex);
  public void updateRecord(Record r)
    //SQL for Records table
    String command =
    "UPDATE Record SET FirstName = '"+ r.getFirstName()
      + "', LastName = '"+r.getLastName()
      + "', StreetAddress = '"+ r.getStreetAddr()
      + "', City = '"+ r.getCity()
      + "', Country = '"+ r.getCountry()
      + "', email = '"+ r.getEmail()
      + "', phone = "+ r.getPhone()
      +", fax = "+ r.getFax()
   + " WHERE Record_Number = "+ r.getRecordNumber();
    String timeOn = new java.util.Date().toString();
    String action ="INSERT INTO UserLog VALUES(?,?,?)";
    try
      //Records table
      Statement updateRec = connection.createStatement();
      int rowsUpdated = updateRec.executeUpdate(command);
      //UserLog table
      PreparedStatement logSt = connection.prepareStatement(action);
      logSt.setString(1,user);
      logSt.setString(2,timeOn);
      logSt.setString(3,command);
      int logRowsUpdated = logSt.executeUpdate();
      System.out.println("rows affected by updateRecord " + rowsUpdated);
    catch (SQLException ex)
     exceptionCode(ex);
  public String[] getColumnNames()
    String command = "SELECT * FROM Record";
    String[] names = null;
/*    try
      Statement s = connection.createStatement();
      ResultSet recs = s.executeQuery(command);
      ResultSetMetaData rsmd = recs.getMetaData();
      int numCols = rsmd.getColumnCount();
      names = new String[numCols];
      for(int i=1;i<=rsmd.getColumnCount();i++)
        names[i-1] = rsmd.getColumnLabel(i);
    catch (SQLException ex)
      exceptionCode(ex);
     return names;
  public void exceptionCode(SQLException ex)
    System.out.println ("SQLException:");
    while (ex != null)
      System.out.println ("SQLState: "
         + ex.getSQLState());
      System.out.println ("Message:  "
         + ex.getMessage());
      System.out.println ("Vendor:   "
         + ex.getErrorCode());
      ex = ex.getNextException();
      System.out.println ("");
}

Answer 1

I think I found it, as usual right after a long struggle followed by a post.