An Easy Singleton

Writing a Singleton class can be a bit of a chore, you have to remember to do several things such as making your constructor private, implementing a proper getInstance() factory method and making it thread safe by making your instance variable volatile.

There is a quicker way, however, you can cheat and implement a singleton using an Enum:

public enum SingletonEnum {

  /** The one and only instance we allow */
  INSTANCE;

  /**
   * This is our singleton method
   *
   * @param param
   *            The param...
   */
  public void singleMethod1(String param) {
    System.out.println("This is param: " + param);
  }

}

The example above is a simple enum with one instance value - our singleton and is called using this code:

    // enum singleton
    SingletonEnum.INSTANCE.singleMethod1("Enum Singleton");