Java Singleton Design Pattern : Questions

Question

I had an interview recently and he asked me about Singleton Design Patterns about how are they implemented and I told him that using static variables and static methods we can i

Answer 1

The Following Code is from here

The Key point is you should Override the clone method...The Wikipedia example also is helpful.

public class SingletonObject
{
  private SingletonObject()
  {
    // no code req'd
  }

  public static SingletonObject getSingletonObject()
  {
    if (ref == null)
        // it's ok, we can call this constructor
        ref = new SingletonObject();        
    return ref;
  }

  public Object clone()
    throws CloneNotSupportedException
  {
    throw new CloneNotSupportedException(); 
    // that'll teach 'em
  }

  private static SingletonObject ref;
}