Implementing Singleton with an Enum (in Java)

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This,

public enum MySingleton {
  INSTANCE;   
}

has an implicit empty constructor. Make it explicit instead,

public enum MySingleton {
    INSTANCE;
    private MySingleton() {
        System.out.println("Here");
    }
}

If you then added another class with a main() method like

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(MySingleton.INSTANCE);
}

You would see

Here
INSTANCE

enum fields are compile time constants, but they are instances of their enum type. And, they’re constructed when the enum type is referenced for the first time.

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