Hi,
Trying to fully understand the singleton
pattern where you only want one instance of a class to exist (i.e. a database connection pool). Static methods exists at the class level and should be independent of instance state. The getInstance() method returns an instance of the singleton class. This instance is declared as static which means it will only ever exist once for this class - thus all objects calling this static method will be getting the same one instance. Am I understanding this correctly? What is preventing other objects from importing this class and creating a new instance of it?
Singleton singleClass = new Singleton();
You would want to force other classes to use the getInstance() method wouldn't you?
Thanks for your help in understanding this.
- - John