Singleton Pattern

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• What
• Where
• How
 What is Singleton?

Ensure that a class can have

only one instance, and provide a
global point of access to it
[Gof]
 Where to use it?
• Loggers
• Device driver modules
• Communication end points
• Handling database connections
• DON’T USE IT!!!
 Evil Singleton
• Difficult to find dependencies
• Breaks inheritance
• Hampers code testability

• Use DI instead.
 How to create one?
• Eager loading
• Lazy loading
• Double Checked Locking
• Lazy Holder class
• Single Element Enum
 Eager Loading
public class Singleton {

private static final Singleton INSTANCE = new

Singleton();

private Elvis() {}

public static Singleton getInstance() {

return INSTANCE;
}
}
 Lazy Loading
public class Singleton {

private static Singleton instance;

private Singleton() {}

public synchronized static Singleton getInstance(){

if(instance == null) {
instance = new Singleton();
}
return instance;
}
}
 Double Checked Locking
static volatile Singleton instance;
public static Singleton getInstance() {
if (instance == null) {
synchronized (Singleton.class) {
if (instance == null)
instance == new Singleton();
}
}
return instance;
}
 Lazy Holder Class
public class Singleton {

/* Static inner class */

private static class SingletonHolder {
static final Singleton INSTANCE = new Singleton();
}

public static Singleton getInstance() {

return SingletonHolder.INSTANCE;
}

}
 Single Element Enum

public enum Singleton{

INSTANCE;
}
DON’T USE IT!