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singleton

Posted by william on May 10, 2001 at 10:46 AM

Use the singleton pattern - that is, the servlet has only one, private constructor, that is called from a getInstance() method, which itself checks to see whether the class already exists

> Can we anyhow guarantee that only one instance of that servlet is created by the servlet container.

> Thanks