Re: Singletons (offshoot of EJB Restrictions-- threads, io)

[Marc San Soucie]

Jim Cook wrote:

> Don't use EJB to implement singletons. I would create a remote CORBA object
> and bind it in the JNDI namespace. Sure, I end up implementing my own
> lifecycle management (or my CORBA container does), but we've been doing that
> for years before anyone heard of EJB.

This approach is one we often recommend as well. It is particularly useful
in architectures which routinely engage multiple JVMs to run applications.
The only singleton which works across the entire system is a networked
singleton, and CORBA does a fine job of implementing that.

    Marc San Soucie
    GemStone Systems, Inc.
    Beaverton, Oregon
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