prototype - Bean scope

prototype:

This bean scope just reverses the behavior of singleton scope and produces a new instance each and every time a bean is requested.

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

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

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

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

       <bean id="employee" class="spring.bean.scope.prototype.Employee" scope="prototype"/>

</beans>

package spring.bean.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.prototype;

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/prototype/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