From cffe592c9cffbe46e3611ea2b69f4501880a103f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sujan Reddy Annem <sannem@asu.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:24:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] New Singleton class

Thread-safe and lazy loading.
---
 .../main/java/com/iluwatar/SingletonClass.java | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 singleton/src/main/java/com/iluwatar/SingletonClass.java

diff --git a/singleton/src/main/java/com/iluwatar/SingletonClass.java b/singleton/src/main/java/com/iluwatar/SingletonClass.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7e1de3844
--- /dev/null
+++ b/singleton/src/main/java/com/iluwatar/SingletonClass.java
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package com.iluwatar;
+
+public class SingletonClass {
+
+	private static SingletonClass singletonInstance = null;
+
+	public synchronized static SingletonClass getSingleton() {
+		/*
+		 * The instance gets created only when it is called for first time.
+		 * Lazy-loading
+		 */
+		if (singletonInstance == null) {
+			singletonInstance = new SingletonClass();
+		}
+
+		return singletonInstance;
+	}
+}