Re: SingletonHolder reinvented.

From:
"Andrey Ryabov" <andrey_ryabov@bk.ru>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
12 Feb 2007 07:55:01 -0800
Message-ID:
<1171295700.915112.179750@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>
Just simplified version:

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

    public T get() {
        try {
            T result = _instance.get();
            if (result != null) {
                return result; // Return value if it has already been initialized.
            }
            if (_future.compareAndSet(null, new FutureTask<T>(this))) { //
create and try to set to _future
                _future.get().run(); // run the task if previous operation
succeed, executed only once!
            }
            result = _future.get().get(); // get result of execution..
            if (result == null) {
                throw new IllegalStateException(...); // It must not be null
            }
            _instance.compareAndSet(null, result); // set only if it was not
set already
            return result;
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
            throw new RuntimeException(...);
        } catch (ExecutionException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(...);
        }
    }

        // This method is to be overridden by subclasses.
    public T call() throws Exception {
        throw new IllegalStateException("call is not implemented");
    }
}

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