Are there any viable alternatives to the GOF Singleton Pattern?

Question

Let\'s face it. The Singleton Pattern is highly controversial topic with hordes programmers on both sides of the fence. There are those who feel like the Singleto

Answer 1

Spring or any other IoC-Container does a reasonably good job in that. Since the classes are created and managed outside the app itself, the container can make simple classes singletons and inject them where needed.