Singleton Design Pattern

Singleton Design Pattern

Intent:

Allow creation of only one instance for a class and provide global access to it.

Thread Safety:

Meyers Singleton provides thread safety from two threads trying to initialize singleton instance simultaneously.

Use Cases:

• Logger
• Session Settings

Issues:

References:

• SINGLETON - THE ANTI-PATTERN!

• When Singleton Becomes an Anti-Pattern

• [Singleton Design Pattern]https://sourcemaking.com/design_patterns/singleton)
• Thread-Safe Initialization of a Singleton