What is the better approach to implement Singleton pattern?

Singleton is one of the frequently used and easily understandable design pattern. Most of the tutorials and books give example of making the constructor as private and exposing a static method which will provide single instance. The common example they use is Runtime class of JRE.

Is making constructor as private is the only way to implement singleton pattern? Is that the best way to implement singleton pattern?

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Java: How to stop a thread?

Sun deprecated Thread.stop() because it is unsafe. They didn’t provide any direct alternative for this operation; instead they are making us to reinvent the wheel. Here I am sharing my style of safe thread stop implementation. Read more of this post

Volatile and doubled checked locking in Java

During my Java training, I read about volatile keyword, but didn’t get clear understanding. Recently when I wrote a singleton class using double checked locking, PMD code reviewer gave a warning not to use volatile. Later I started exploring on double checked locking issue, here is my observation.

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Spring Web Flow / Shale Dialog

Recently I got an opportunity to explore Spring Web FlowExternal Link framework. Later I came to know that Shale DialogExternal Link also solves the same problem. JBoss Seam too solves the same problem.

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