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Is my singleton implementation a true singleton?

 
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Getting in on the fun... Could this implementation provide a rock solid singleton class?

 
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I believe that produces a threadsafe Singleton implementation, and I've seen implementations like that in my company.

It is a little awkward if your Singleton constructor can throw an Exception. Java gives a confusing ClassNotFound error if there is an exception thrown from a static initializer in a class.
 
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No idea what you mean by a rock solid singleton, but reflection attack is possible with your implementation.



The output of the above mentioned code is --

false
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128087567

 
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Indeed that is true. Is there a way to avoid a reflection attack without using a security manager? I think I can think of a way to update Rico's implementation to stop your attack working, but I don't have a compiler to hand to test it.
 
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Mike. J. Thompson wrote:Indeed that is true. Is there a way to avoid a reflection attack without using a security manager? I think I can think of a way to update Rico's implementation to stop your attack working, but I don't have a compiler to hand to test it.



Yes there is with ReflectPermisson and a proper policy file, but it's extremely rare to have to worry about such security considerations.
 
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Rico Felix wrote:Getting in on the fun... Could this implementation provide a rock solid singleton class?


Sure. However, the need for such an idiom (I believe it's called "lazy initialization holder") is extremely rare.
It's also quite possible that it will be made redundant by future releases (several others already have been), in which case what you'll be left with is a piece of arcane code.

That's assuming you even need a singleton to begin with.

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