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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [//]: # (title: Persisting State of Components)
 
-<!-- Copyright 2000-2020 JetBrains s.r.o. and other contributors. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license that can be found in the LICENSE file. -->
+<!-- Copyright 2000-2021 JetBrains s.r.o. and other contributors. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license that can be found in the LICENSE file. -->
 
 The IntelliJ Platform provides an API that allows components or services to persist their state between restarts of the IDE.
 You can use either a simple API to persist a few values or persist the state of more complicated components using the [`PersistentStateComponent`](upsource:///platform/projectModel-api/src/com/intellij/openapi/components/PersistentStateComponent.java) interface.
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ In the former case, the state class instance is typically stored as a field in t
 @State(...)
 class MyService implements PersistentStateComponent<MyService.State> {
 
+  public static MyService getInstance() {
+    // implementation according to Application/Project level service
+  }
+
   static class State {
     public String value;
   }
@@ -187,4 +191,4 @@ Components save their state in the following files:
 
 * Project-level: project (`.ipr`) file.
   However, if the workspace option in the `plugin.xml` file is set to `true`, then the workspace (`.iws`) file is used instead.
-* Module-level: module (`.iml`) file.
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+* Module-level: module (`.iml`) file.