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Re: Singleton Pattern

Date 2011-08-13 14:48 -0700
From Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Singleton Pattern
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On 8/13/2011 1:56 PM, vbhavsar@gmail.com wrote:
...
> public class Singleton {
>
> 	private static Singleton _instance;
> 	private Singleton(){}
>
> 	private synchronized static void createInstance(){
> 		_instance = new Singleton();
> 	}
>
> 	public static Singleton getInstance(){
> 		if (_instance == null){
> 			createInstance();
> 		}
> 		return _instance;
> 	}
> }
...
> Anyone see any issues with this?

Suppose thread A calls getInstance, sees _instance to be null, calls
createInstance, and some time later thread B calls getInstance and also
sees _instance to be null. Isn't B going to go ahead and re-initialize
_instance?

If you do not think that is possible, please explain why not.

Patricia

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Singleton Pattern "vbhavsar@gmail.com" <vbhavsar@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 13:56 -0700
  Re: Singleton Pattern markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-13 14:41 -0700
  Re: Singleton Pattern Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-13 14:48 -0700
  Re: Singleton Pattern Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-08-13 16:43 -0700
    Re: Singleton Pattern Ian <m4r35n357@gmail.com> - 2011-08-15 15:00 +0100
      Re: Singleton Pattern Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-15 07:56 -0700
        Re: Singleton Pattern Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-15 22:07 -0700
          Re: Singleton Pattern Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-08-16 00:09 -0700
            Re: Singleton Pattern Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-16 06:15 -0700
              Re: Singleton Pattern Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-08-16 06:57 -0700
                Re: Singleton Pattern Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-16 09:25 -0700
                Re: Singleton Pattern Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-08-16 18:10 -0700
  Re: Singleton Pattern Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-13 20:56 -0400
    Re: Singleton Pattern Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 21:12 -0700
  Re: Singleton Pattern Rajeev <rajeev.nospam@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 06:37 -0700

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