Introducing Spring Framework 6: Learning and Building Java-based Applications With Spring

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F. Gutierrez, J. B. OttingerIntroducing Spring Framework 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8637-1_4

4. Using Bean Scopes

Felipe Gutierrez¹   and Joseph B. Ottinger²

(1)

Cary, NC, USA

(2)

YOUNGSVILLE, NC, USA

 

So far, we’ve seen the basic requirements of a My Documents application, and we’ve explored some aspects of configuration of a simple implementation of a search engine that can return either all documents or documents of a specific type.

In all cases, we’ve returned what is effectively a singleton of every implementation, meaning that Spring constructs one instance of each component.

In this chapter, we’re going to spend some time with bean scopes, which ...