Observer pattern

[Timmy Ryan]

I have a checkers game.

Model contains the game state and the view naturally displays the game.
The view is contained in a JFrame and this contains a few JPanels.

The model extends Observable and one of the views JPanels implements Observer.

When creating the model instance to hold the game state I need to run addObserver(JPanel instence) for the view to be notified when the model is updated.
Should I make the JPanel instance a singleton?

Kind of confused with so many references floating around.

[Paul Clapham]

If you need only one of those Observer panels in your application, then just create one of them. There's usually no need to go through all that tedious Singleton business when a simple "Observer whatever = new ObserverPanel()" will do.