Design Patterns I - Singleton, Double-Checked locking, Lazy Initialization

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Last update: 29/05/2013, 30/05/2013

There are 4 categories of design patterns called Gang of Four (GoF):

- Creational patterns

- Structural patterns

- Behavior patterns

- Concurrency patterns

Singleton is a creational pattern. 

Double-checked locking is a concurrency pattern.

Lazy initialization is a a creational pattern.

Singleton is a design pattern used to limit one class to have just only 1 instance.

Here is an example of basic Singleton:

Here is an example about Double-check locking singleton:

volatile: ensures that one thread retrieves the most up-to-date value written by another thread.

Here is another Lazy initialization singleton example:

Call the methods inside the singleton classes.

The two implementation of singleton works, and you can choose the ideal one with your special requirements. 

I hope this post does help to you. Enjoy coding!

Refrence: 

http://csharpindepth.com/Articles/General/Singleton.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_pattern_%28computer_science%29#Classification_and_list