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36 lines
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layout: pattern
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title: MonoState
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folder: monostate
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permalink: /patterns/monostate/
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categories: Creational
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tags:
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- Java
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- Difficulty-Beginner
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---
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## Also known as
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Borg
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## Intent
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Enforces a behaviour like sharing the same state amongst all instances.
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## Applicability
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Use the Monostate pattern when
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* The same state must be shared across all instances of a class.
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* Typically this pattern might be used everywhere a Singleton might be used. Singleton usage however is not transparent, Monostate usage is.
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* Monostate has one major advantage over singleton. The subclasses might decorate the shared state as they wish and hence can provide dynamically different behaviour than the base class.
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## Typical Use Case
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* the logging class
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* managing a connection to a database
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* file manager
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## Real world examples
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Yet to see this.
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