SingletonHolder reinvented.

From:
"Andrey Ryabov" <andrey_ryabov@bk.ru>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
12 Feb 2007 06:16:58 -0800
Message-ID:
<1171289818.504795.293830@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>
Don't blame me I reinvent a wheel again...

I understend this subject was discussed many times.
but I would like to know what do you think about my implementation.

package ru.m12h.utils;

import java.util.concurrent.BrokenBarrierException;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.concurrent.CyclicBarrier;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.FutureTask;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;

public class SingletonHolder<T> implements Callable<T> {
    private AtomicReference<T> _instance = new AtomicReference<T>();
    private AtomicReference<FutureTask<T>> _future = new
AtomicReference<FutureTask<T>>();
    private Callable<T> _callable;

    public SingletonHolder() {
    }

    public SingletonHolder(Callable<T> _callable) {
        this._callable = _callable;
    }

    public T get() {
        try {
            T result = _instance.get();
            if (result != null) {
                return result;
            }
            if (_future.compareAndSet(null, new FutureTask<T>(_callable !=
null ? _callable : this))) {
                _future.get().run();
            }
            result = _future.get().get();
            if (result == null) {
                throw new IllegalStateException();
            }
            _instance.compareAndSet(null, result);
            return result;
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
            throw new RuntimeException("Thread interrupted during lazy
initialization.", e);
        } catch (ExecutionException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Exception during lazy initialization.",
e.getCause());
        }
    }

    public T call() throws Exception {
        throw new IllegalStateException("The call() method is not
implemented");
    }

        //
    // Test SingletonHolder ...
        //
    public static SingletonHolder<String> holder = new
SingletonHolder<String>() {
        public String call() throws Exception {
            return "Singleton value is created from thread: " +
Thread.currentThread().getName();
        }
    };

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int count = 10;
        final CyclicBarrier barrier = new CyclicBarrier(count);
        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++ ) {
            new Thread() {
                public void run() {
                    try {
                        barrier.await();
                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    } catch (BrokenBarrierException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                    System.out.printf("Thread %s, time: %d, got value [%s]%n",
                            Thread.currentThread().getName(),
                            System.currentTimeMillis(),
                            holder.get());
                }
            }.start();
        }
    }
}

The major advantage of this implementation against the following:

public class Singleton {
  static class SingletonHolder {
    static Singleton instance = new Singleton();
  }

  public static Singleton getInstance() {
    return SingletonHolder.instance;
  }
}

is that I can resent and re-initialize value of singleton I case, for
example, of redeploy or smth.
It's important for me to be able to resent and re-initialize singleton
object.

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