CS4282/CS6282 Internet and Distributed Systems Programming

CS4282/CS6282 Internet and Distributed Systems Programming

Doug Lea : Concurrent Programming in Java

ThreadLocal and Singleton

Notes on page 86

1. Consider using ThreadLocal rather than a Singleton in situations where it is more appropriate to create ONE instance of a class PER thread than one instnace per program.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-threads3.html