Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java

Singleton

The singleton pattern can be re-implemented by using closure and Supplier<T>. The Java hybrid code can make use of the Supplier<T> interface, such as in the following code, where the singleton is an enum (according to functional programming, the singleton types are those that have only one value, just like enums). The following example code is similar to the one from chapter 2, Creational Patterns:

jshell> enum Singleton{...> INSTANCE;...> public static Supplier<Singleton> getInstance()...> {...> return () -> Singleton.INSTANCE;...> }...>...> public void doSomething(){...> System.out.println("Something is Done.");...> }...> }| created enum Singletonjshell> Singleton.getInstance().get().doSomething();Something is Done.