Bean scopes annotation

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"

       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd

       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context

       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd">

      

<context:component-scan base-package="spring.bean.scope.annotations" />

</beans>

package spring.bean.scope.annotations;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Scope;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

@Service

@Scope("prototype")

public class Employee {

       private String name;

       public String getName() {

              return name;

       }

       public void setName(String name) {

              this.name = name;

       }

}

package spring.bean.scope.annotations;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class TestSingleton {

       public static void main( String[] args )  {

              ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(

                           new String[] {"spring/bean/scope/annotations/Spring-Customer.xml"});

              Employee custA = context.getBean("employee", Employee.class);

              //retrieve it again

              Employee custB = context.getBean("employee", Employee.class);

              if(custA == custB) {

                     System.out.println("both are same instance : prototype");

              } else {

                     System.out.println("both are different instance : prototype");

              }

       }

}

Output:

both are different instance : prototype