[java] Singleton with Arguments in Java

I think you need something like a factory to have objects with various parameters instantiated and reused. It could be implemented by using a synchronized HashMap or ConcurrentHashMap map a parameter (an Integer for an example) to your 'singleton' parameterizable class.

Although you might get to the point where you should use regular, non-singleton classes instead (for example needing 10.000 differently parametrized singleton).

Here is an example for such store:

public final class UsefulObjFactory {

    private static Map<Integer, UsefulObj> store =
        new HashMap<Integer, UsefulObj>();

    public static final class UsefulObj {
        private UsefulObj(int parameter) {
            // init
        }
        public void someUsefulMethod() {
            // some useful operation
        }
    }

    public static UsefulObj get(int parameter) {
        synchronized (store) {
            UsefulObj result = store.get(parameter);
            if (result == null) {
                result = new UsefulObj(parameter);
                store.put(parameter, result);
            }
            return result;
        }
    }
}

To push it even further, the Java enums can be also considered (or used as) parametrized singletons, although allowing only a fixed number static variants.

However, if you need a distributed1 solution, consider some lateral caching solution. For example: EHCache, Terracotta, etc.

1 in the sense of spanning multiple VMs on probably multiple computers.

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