Coldfusion Design Patterns

Singleton Pattern in Coldfusion

November 27th, 2007

Coldfusion implementation of singleton pattern to restrict instantiation of class to one object. Singleton Pattern is useful when exactly one object is needed to coordinate actions across the system. Sometimes it is generalized to systems that operate more efficiently when only one or a few objects exist

Singletons are perhaps one of the most simple Design Patterns. For those who don’t know sigletons are a class that can only have one instance. They can be thought of as a glorified global variable - but are a lot more useful.

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