Re: Singleton - Whether Cloneable overrides Singleton
"Proton Projects - Moin" <mohd.mohideen@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1174891407.797380.236870@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
Hi all,
public class ChummaEx implements Cloneable
{
private static ChummaEx moin = null;
private String mName = null;
private ChummaEx()
{}
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}
[...]
SIngleton has the functionality to create only instance...I was trying
to beak the singleton behavior and after a long research i achieved it
by using the Cloneable interface...
There are easier ways to "break" singleton behaviour. For example:
public class ChummaEx {
private static ChummaEx moin = null;
private String mName = null;
public ChummaEx()
{}
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}
My Questions are:
1. Whether the singleton behavior is overriden by the Cloneable
behavior
2. By implementing the Cloneable interface, how to retain the
Singleton behavior...
3. I tried to use the final key at some place to retain the singleton
behavior....but i failed.
4. Some group mates might have a question in their mind, why i have
used the Cloneable interface....as i already told, i was doing some
research over the singleton...
Decide whether you want your class to be a Singleton or not.
If you do: Do not "break" the singleton behaviour. That is: do not
provide a public constructor; do not implement cloneable; do not provide a
factory method which returns lots of different instances, etc.
If you don't: Do not worry if you "break" the singleton behaviour.
- Oliver
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