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When is Singleton appropriate?

Some hold that the Singleton Pattern is always an anti-pattern. What do you think?
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What is the difference between all-static-methods and applying a singleton pattern?

I am making a database to store information about the users of my website (I am using stuts2 and hence Java EE technology). For the database I'll be making a DBManager. Should I apply singleton ...
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The Singleton Pattern [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: When is Singleton appropriate? I am a new programmer (4 months into my first job) and have recently taken an interest in design patterns. One that I have used recently ...
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How to create a manager class without global variables nor singletons?

I would like to implement some kind of manager class in my application. It will be in charge of loading textures, processing them, distributing them etc... At first, I wanted to make a global ...