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singleton using static method

Posted by Ted on 24 Mar 1999, 1:48 PM

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.

• singleton classes Manimuthulakshmi December 19, 2000 at 2:27 AM (0)