Singleton Design Pattern

Singleton pattern is one of the simplest design patterns in Java. This type of design pattern comes under creational pattern as this pattern provides one of the best way to create an object.
This pattern involves a single class which is responsible to creates own object while making sure that only single object get created. This class provides a way to access its only object which can be accessed directly without need to instantiate the object of the class.

Implementation
We're going to create a SingleObject class. SingleObject class have its constructor as private and have a static instance of itself. SingleObject class provides a static method to get its static instance to outside world.SingletonPatternDemo, our demo class will use SingleObject class to get a SingleObject object.

Class Diagram


Steps 
Use the following steps to implement the above mentioned design pattern.
Step 1
Create a Singleton Class.
SingleObject.java
public class SingleObject {
           //create an object of SingleObject
           private static SingleObject instance = new SingleObject();
           //make the constructor private so that this class cannot be
           //instantiated
           private SingleObject(){}
           //Get the only object available
           public static SingleObject getInstance(){
                      return instance;
           }
           public void showMessage(){
                      System.out.println("Hello World!");
           }
}
Step 2
Get the only object from the singleton class.
SingletonPatternDemo.java
public class SingletonPatternDemo {
           public static void main(String[] args) {
                      //illegal construct
                      //Compile Time Error: The constructor SingleObject() is not visible
                      //SingleObject object = new SingleObject();
                      //Get the only object available
                      SingleObject object = SingleObject.getInstance();
                      //show the message object.showMessage();
           }
}

Step 3
Verify the output.
Hello World!