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Quoth Michael Boyle:
> I have been unsuccessfully attempting to implement the singleton
> pattern in my project.
[snip]
> Now, I realize that no object is storing a reference to my
> TestApp instance, but surely any static member object of a
> class should not be garbage collected.
This is a known "feature" of Java.  The solution is to have a
SingletonRegistry running in a separate thread that maintains pointers
to all singletons.  Mark Grand outlines this sort of thing in Patterns
in Java, Vol. 1, which I'd recommend.  It's a Java-centric
implementation of the GoF patterns along with some "extras", but it goes
into some of the language specific issues you can encounter.

--
Within C++ is a smaller, cleaner language
struggling to get out.  
It's called Java.

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