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29 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: Java
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**Intent:** Enforces a behaviour like sharing the same state amongst all instances.
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**Applicability:** 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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