Re: Design question: best way for initializing many small objects
michael ha scritto:
c) Create something globally visible, i.e. a Singleton or even a
global variable,
that is accessible from the X509Certificate objects and that provides
X509_STORE*.
-> Sounds like this makes most sense. However, like most people,
I'm always cautious with Singletons and the like, and I try to avoid
them, whenever
it is possible.
The singleton pattern is probably the most useful design pattern ever. I
don't understand why you should avoid it when it's exactly what you need
here. All objections I heard about the singleton pattern were not really
directed to the pattern itself, but to the implementations of it. Yes,
the only big problem with the singleton pattern is that there as many
possible implementations as there are programmers on this planet
(actually, a lot of programmers have more than one implementation in
their cookbook).
Ganesh
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