Breaking the Singleton Design Pattern
A little more about reflection: Another post in my blog More about singleton: Wikipedia: Singleton pattern This semester, I have taken part in a course in Master program at HCMUT. Recently, the lecturer is disappointed because the number of students attending the class is so low. So I went to class this morning. The lecture was about design patterns. At the moment I entered the room, the lecturer demonstrated Singleton patterns and the content was quite simple. When he said that the constructor of the class must be non public so that the outside world wouldn't be able to instantiate a new instance of that class, the first thing came into my mind: REFLECTION . What if there is a man in the outside world, try attacking the principle of singleton by reflection. The lecturer prefers C# and by chance, I am working with that language, so I will use it as the language of all code in this entry. Also, in this entry, I will play 2 roles: the man trying attacking singleton pattern