Many of Java developers know about singleton pattern and how to create it. But, creating a thread safe Singleton is the real absolute singleton. Otherwise, there are chances for ending up with different objects for different threads, which is totally against singleton.
A sample program given in the discusion here clearly explains how a singleton which is not thread safe can create different objects w.r.t different threads.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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