On design patterns: When should I use the singleton?

Question

The glorified global variable - becomes a gloried global class. Some say breaking object-oriented design.

Give me scenarios, other than the good old logger where it

Answer 1

You can use Singleton when implementing the State pattern (in the manner shown in the GoF book). This is because the concrete State classes have no state of their own, and perform their actions in terms of a context class.

You can also make Abstract Factory a singleton.