Stateless singleton VS Static methods

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Published on 2010-05-04T12:03:07Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 12:08 UTC
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Hey,

Don't find any good answer to this simple question about helper/utils classes:

Why would i create a singleton (stateless) rather than static methods?

Why an object instance could be needed while the object has no state?

Sometimes i really don't know what to use...

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