How to deal with Singleton along with Serialization

Question

Consider I have a Singleton class defined as follows.

public class MySingleton implements Serializable{
 private static MySingleton myInstance;

 private MyS         


        

Answer 1

The best way to do this is to use the enum singleton pattern:

public enum MySingleton {
  INSTANCE;
}

This guarantees the singleton-ness of the object and provides serializability for you in such a way that you always get the same instance.

More generally, you can provide a readResolve() method like so:

protected Object readResolve() {
  return myInstance;
}