Re: Thread-safe Singleton Design Implementation
yaru22 wrote On 07/30/07 13:31,:
I was reading Wikipedia about Singleton Design pattern and it had some
sample codes for the implementation.
Under Java example implementation, there was "A thread-safe Java
programming language lazy-loaded solution." But I don't understand why
it is thread-safe & lazy-loaded solution. Could anyone explain it?
This is the source code from the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Singleton_pattern) :
public class Singleton
{
// Private constructor suppresses generation of a (public) default
constructor
private Singleton() {}
private static class SingletonHolder
{
private final static Singleton INSTANCE = new Singleton();
}
public static Singleton getInstance()
{
return SingletonHolder.INSTANCE;
}
}
Bloch explains this technique in "Effective Java."
It is lazy-loaded because the SingletonHolder class
is not loaded until it is needed, and it won't be needed
until the first time someone calls getInstance.
It is thread-safe because class loading is itself
thread-safe. Only one thread will load SingletonHolder.
If twenty-seven threads all call getInstance at the same
time, SingletonHolder is still loaded and initialized only
once, and all those threads see the same INSTANCE value.
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