Chapter 8. Singleton

Objects can usually act responsibly just by performing their own work on their own attributes, without incurring obligations beyond self-consistency. Some objects, though, take on increased responsibilities, such as modeling real-world entities, coordinating work, or modeling the overall state of a system. When a particular object in a system bears a responsibility on which other objects rely, you need some way of finding the responsible object. For example, you might need to find an object that represents a particular machine, or a customer object that can construct itself from data in a database, or an object that initiates system memory recovery.

When you need to find a responsible object, in some cases, the object that ...

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