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Re: Guice vs plain singleton

From Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Guice vs plain singleton
Date 2017-12-21 13:59 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2017-12-20 17:53, Patrick Roemer wrote:
> Responding to Victor Porton:
>> What should I prefer for creating a singleton object with "heavy" (requiring 
>> much CPU time or like this) constructor:
>>
>> - Guice @Singleton injector
>>
>> or 
>>
>> - plain hand-made singleton like 
>>
>> static Type instance; ... if(instance==null) ...
>>
>> ?
> 
> public class Singleton {
>   public final static Singleton INSTANCE = new Singleton();
> 
>   private Singleton() {
>     // expensive setup
>   }
> 
>   public Foo service(Bar bar) {
>     // ...
>   }
> }
> 
> The instance will only be created when the class is initialized, and
> that's only if a client accesses the field or calls the method on this
> class (which requires having access to the instance first). 

More precisely:
<https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-12.html#jls-12.4.1>.

See also:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization_on_demand_holder_idiom>

-- 
DF.

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Guice vs plain singleton Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2017-12-20 18:19 +0200
  Re: Guice vs plain singleton Patrick Roemer <sangamon@netcologne.de> - 2017-12-20 17:53 +0100
    Re: Guice vs plain singleton Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2017-12-21 13:59 +0100
      Re: Guice vs plain singleton lewbloch@gmail.com - 2017-12-21 11:36 -0800
        Re: Guice vs plain singleton Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-12-22 20:11 -0500
          Re: Guice vs plain singleton Sebastian <nowhere@nirvana.org> - 2017-12-23 16:15 +0100
            Re: Guice vs plain singleton lewbloch@gmail.com - 2017-12-23 09:54 -0800
              Re: Guice vs plain singleton Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-12-23 19:27 -0500

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