Spring – Bean Scopes

When defining a in Spring, you have the option of declaring a scope for that bean. For example, to force Spring to produce a new bean instance each time one is needed, you should declare the bean's scope attribute to be prototype. Similarly, if you want Spring to return the same bean instance each time one is needed, you should declare the bean's scope attribute to be singleton. The Spring Framework supports the following five scopes, three of which are available only if you use a web-aware ApplicationContext. Scope Description singleton This scopes the bean definition to a single instance per Spring IoC container (default). prototype This scopes a single bean definition to have any number of object instances. request This scopes a bean definition to an HTTP request. Only valid in the context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext. session This scopes a bean definition to an HTTP session. Only valid in the context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext. global-session This scopes a bean definition to a global HTTP session. Only valid in the context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext. In this chapter, we will discuss about the first two scopes and the remaining three will be discussed when we discuss about web-aware Spring ApplicationContext.