Chapter 12. Making Sure There Is Only One with the Singleton
Pity the poor Singleton pattern. Even coders who do not know very much about patterns know about the singleton. Mainly they know one thing: Singletons are Bad, with a capital "B". And yet we cannot seem to live without the things. Singletons are everywhere. In the Java world, singletons show up in some of the most widely used software around—you will find them in tomcat, in ant, and in JDOM. On the Ruby side, we can find singletons lurking in Webrick, in rake, and even in Rails, just to name a few.
What is it about the Singleton pattern that makes it so indispensable and yet so widely detested? In the pages that follow we will look at why you might need a singleton, how you would go ...
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