The glorified global variable – becomes a gloried global class. Some say breaking object-oriented design. Give me scenarios, other than the good old logger where it makes sense to use the singleton. 22 s 22 On my quest for the truth I discovered that there are actually very few “acceptable” reasons to use a Singleton. … Read more
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What real (i.e. practical) difference exists between a static class and a singleton pattern? Both can be invoked without instantiation, both provide only one “Instance” and neither of them is thread-safe. Is there any other difference? 40 40
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There have been several questions already posted with specific questions about dependency injection, such as when to use it and what frameworks are there for it. However, What is dependency injection and when/why should or shouldn’t it be used? 3 38
