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singleton classes

Posted by Manimuthulakshmi on December 19, 2000 at 2:27 AM

> In an application I'm developing I have a singleton class
> which provides basic services used throughout the application.
> The singleton is implemented using statics. I do not believe
> the question of object-oriented versus procedural programming
> applies here. It is one of style.

> For a singleton accessed in many places, ClassName.method()
> seems to me to be more readable than
> ClassName.getInstance().method. Since the concensus
> is not to use statics for singletons I will probably change
> it, but I am not completely convinced.

please explain in detail about the singleton classes.