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Singleton Pattern

The Singleton design pattern ensures that only one instance of a class is created. It provides a global point of access to the object. The class has a private constructor and a static method that returns the instance. The SingletonPatternDemo class uses the Singleton class to get the single instance and call its showMessage method, outputting "Hello World!".

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Singleton Pattern

The Singleton design pattern ensures that only one instance of a class is created. It provides a global point of access to the object. The class has a private constructor and a static method that returns the instance. The SingletonPatternDemo class uses the Singleton class to get the single instance and call its showMessage method, outputting "Hello World!".

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Singleton design pattern in Java

 We can make constructor as private. So that We can not create an


object outside of the class.

 This property is useful to create singleton class in java.

 Singleton pattern helps us to keep only one instance of a class at any


time.
 The purpose of singleton is to control object creation by keeping private
constructor.

We're going to create a SingleObject class. SingleObject class have its


constructor as private and have a static instance of itself.

SingleObject class provides a static method to get its static instance to


outside world. SingletonPatternDemo, our demo class will
use SingleObject class to get a SingleObject object.
Step 1
Create a Singleton Class.

SingleObject.java

public class SingleObject {

//create an object of SingleObject


private static SingleObject instance = new SingleObject();

//make the constructor private so that this class cannot be


//instantiated
private SingleObject(){}

//Get the only object available


public static SingleObject getInstance(){
return instance;
}
public void showMessage(){
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}
}

Step 2
Get the only object from the singleton class.
SingletonPatternDemo.java

public class SingletonPatternDemo {


public static void main(String[] args) {

//illegal construct
//Compile Time Error: The constructor SingleObject() is not visible
//SingleObject object = new SingleObject();

//Get the only object available


SingleObject object = SingleObject.getInstance();
//show the message
object.showMessage();
}
}

Output
Hello World!

Following implementation shows a classic Singleton design pattern −

public class ClassicSingleton {

private static ClassicSingleton instance = null;


private ClassicSingleton() {
// Exists only to defeat instantiation.
}

public static ClassicSingleton getInstance() {


if(instance == null) {
instance = new ClassicSingleton();
}
return instance;
}
}
The ClassicSingleton class maintains a static reference to the lone singleton
instance and returns that reference from the static getInstance() method.

Here, ClassicSingleton class employs a technique known as lazy instantiation


to create the singleton; as a result, the singleton instance is not created until
the getInstance() method is called for the first time. This technique ensures
that singleton instances are created only when needed.

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