singleton and inheritance in Java

Question

I have a base class that captures some functionality common to two classes. In other words, I can create one base class and make these two classes subclasses of that base cl

Answer 1

I don't know if you need an example but I gave it a try. Without knowing any of your details this example is very vague. I am also here to learn so let us know what you end up implementing.

The Base class:

  public abstract class BaseClass {

        public void someMethod() {
            System.out.println("base class hello: " + this);
        }

        public abstract void someOtherMethod(String value);
    }

One of the subclasses:

public class SubClassOne extends BaseClass {

    private static SubClassOne instance;

    private SubClassOne() {}

    public static SubClassOne getInstance() {
        if (instance == null) {
            instance = new SubClassOne();
        }
        return instance;
    }

    public void someOtherMethod(String value) {
        someMethod();
        System.out.println("sub class hello: " + value + " " + this);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SubClassOne one = SubClassOne.getInstance();
        SubClassOne two = SubClassOne.getInstance();
        SubClassOne three = SubClassOne.getInstance();
        SubClassOne four = SubClassOne.getInstance();
        one.someOtherMethod("one");
        two.someOtherMethod("two");
        three.someOtherMethod("three");
        four.someOtherMethod("four");
    }
}