Thread Safe Singleton Examples

public class Singleton {
        // Private constructor prevents instantiation from other classes
        private Singleton() { }
 
        /**
        * SingletonHolder is loaded on the first execution of Singleton.getInstance() 
        * or the first access to SingletonHolder.INSTANCE, not before.
        */
        private static class SingletonHolder { 
                public static final Singleton INSTANCE = new Singleton();
        }
 
        public static Singleton getInstance() {
                return SingletonHolder.INSTANCE;
        }
}