Loading property File using Singleton pattern in Java

Singleton pattern : Singleton pattern insure only a single instance of a class can exist at given time per JVM.

There are different  ways to implement Singleton pattern.

In this example I will provide you to load properties files using Singleton pattern. This implementation is not thread safe. So if you are not dealing with multi-thread you can use this implementation.

public final class PropReader {

 private static PropReader instance = null;
 static Properties prop = null;
 static InputStream in = null;
 public static String tmLocation = null;

 // private constructor so no other class can instanciate this
 private PropReader() {

  try {
   in = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/app.properties");
   prop = new Properties();
   prop.load(in);
   tmLocation = prop.getProperty("TM_BASE_DIRECTORY");
  }

  catch (Exception e) {

   System.out.println(e);
  }
 } 

// provide instance if no other instance exist 

 public static PropReader getInstance() throws IOException {

  if (instance == null) {
   instance = new PropReader();
  }

  return instance;
 }

}

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