http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:17:10 GMT DZone Snippets: readResolve code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3519 The proper way of implementing a Singleton. <br /> <br /><code> <br />public class MySingleton { <br /> private static final MySingleton INSTANCE = new MySingleton(); <br /> <br /> private MySingleton() {} <br /> <br /> public static final MySingleton getInstance() { <br /> return INSTANCE; <br /> } <br /> <br /> /** <br /> * Normal deserialization returns a new instance of an object. This ensures that only one instance is in existence. <br /> * Deserialization can either create a new instance and leave the deserialized object to be garbage collected or <br /> * reuse the deserialized instance. <br /> */ <br /> private Object readResolve() throws ObjectStreamException { <br /> return INSTANCE; <br /> } <br />} <br /></code> Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:42:59 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3519 wjchay (Chay Weei Jye)