Singleton Class in Java

Here is the example of complete singleton class which implements Cloenable and Serializable as well.

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package com.nitesh;

import java.io.Serializable;
/**
 * This class returns singleton Object and tries to handle all possible cases to avoid
 * creating multiple instance of MySingleton Class
 * Following given steps 
 * 1) Created INSTANCE of same class by instantiating class & this INSTANCE should be with private & static modifier
 * 2) Provide public static method that returns same INSTANCE of class every time
 * 3) Create private constructor so that no-one create object from outside of class
 * 4) Providing private constructor helps to suppress creating objects either by new operator/keyword or refection API & newInstance() method
 * 5) Implementing Serializable interface, and override readResolve() method and return same INSTANCE
 * 6) Implementing Cloneable interface and overridden clone() method and throw CloneNotSupportedException();
 *  @author Nitesh.Gupta
 *
 */
public class MySingleton implements Cloneable, Serializable {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
/**
* Creating a INSTANCE of same class by instantiating class & this INSTANCE should be with private & static modifier
* and with EAGER Loading (creating object using new operator)
*/
private static MySingleton instance = new MySingleton();
/**
* Private constructor to avoid creating instance from outside class.
* Moreover, checking object reference if someone tries to create object using reflection.
*/
private MySingleton() {
if (instance == null) {
throw new IllegalStateException();
}
}
/**
* Static method for returning single object of MySingleton Object 
* @return Object of MySingleton
*/
public static MySingleton getInstance() {
return instance;
}
/**
* ReadResolve method to avoid creating new instance in case of De-serialization 
* @return same object
*/
public Object readResolve() {
return getInstance();
}
/**
* Overriding clone method throwing CloneNotSupportedException exception if 
* someone tries to clone this class
*/
@Override
protected Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {

throw new CloneNotSupportedException();

}
}