Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5

Spring bean scopes

In the previous section, we learned various DI patterns, and saw how to create beans in a Spring container. We also learned various DI configuration such as XML, Java, and annotation. In this section, we will learn more details about bean life and scope available in a Spring container. The Spring container allows us to control the bean at configuration level. This is a very flexible way to define object scope at configuration level, instead of at the Java-class level. In Spring, the bean is controlled through the scope attribute that defines what kind of object has to be created and returned. When you describe <bean>, you have the option of defining scope for that bean. The bean scope describes the life cycle and visibility ...