On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Arjan Houtman wrote:

> Don't you get a problem here that you try to make a static reference
> to a non-static variable? 'instance' is non-static... 'getInstance'
> is static.

Yes, I believe you are correct.  Doing it from memory, figured I'd
missed something :-).  The correction is to make instance static (it
will be a compiler error otherwise).  Also, now that I think about it,
it's probably a good idea to make getInstance synchronized.


> >public class MyGlobalVar {
> >  private MyGlobalVar instance = null;
> >  // whatever other member data fields needed
> >
> >  private MyGlobalVar(...) {
> >    // do whatever is needed to initialize MyGlobalVar
> >  }
> >
> >  public static MyGlobalVar getInstance() {
> >    if (instance == null) instance = new MyGlobalVar(...);
> >
> >    return instance;
> >  }
> >
> >  // whatever other memeber methods needed
> >  // most likely read-only methods
> >}
> >
> >I think I got everything right there.
>

Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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