On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote:
> The short answer is no. There is no concept of memory and no concept of
> a VM in Java. So you can't go rummaging around memory looking for
> things, and (basically) you can't ask the VM to do anything except
> execute bytecodes.
>
> The longer answer is yes, provided you're willing to do some work
> beforehand. You do have references, and you can manipulate them, store
> them, and pass them around. There are even references with different
> properties with respect to the garbage collector.
>
> So, if you're willing to create a reference to the instance you will be
> interested it before you need it, and store it somewhere, you can later
> retrieve that reference at some later date and use it.
That would be a Singleton.
http://members.tripod.com/rwald/java/articles/Singleton_in_Java.html
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