Spring: Prototype Scope

It return new bean instance on each time when the bean is requested.

 <bean id="osho" name="osho" class="com.sample.pojo.Author" scope="prototype">
  <property name="firstName" value="Chandra Mohan" />
  <property name="lastName" value="Jain" />
  <property name="dateOfBirth" value="11 December 1931" />
  <property name="country" value="India" />
 </bean>

Notify above snippet, I set the scope of bean 'osho' to prototype. So whenever the bean 'osho' is requested, Spring IOC container returns new bean.

Following is the complete working application.

Author.java

package com.sample.pojo;

public class Author {
 private String firstName;
 private String lastName;
 private String dateOfBirth;
 private String country;
 
 public Author(){
  System.out.println("Constructor called");
 }

 public String getFirstName() {
  return firstName;
 }

 public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
  this.firstName = firstName;
 }

 public String getLastName() {
  return lastName;
 }

 public void setLastName(String lastName) {
  this.lastName = lastName;
 }

 public String getDateOfBirth() {
  return dateOfBirth;
 }

 public void setDateOfBirth(String dateOfBirth) {
  this.dateOfBirth = dateOfBirth;
 }

 public String getCountry() {
  return country;
 }

 public void setCountry(String country) {
  this.country = country;
 }

}

myConfiguration.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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.xsd">

 <bean id="osho" name="osho" class="com.sample.pojo.Author" scope="prototype">
  <property name="firstName" value="Chandra Mohan" />
  <property name="lastName" value="Jain" />
  <property name="dateOfBirth" value="11 December 1931" />
  <property name="country" value="India" />
 </bean>

</beans>

HelloWorld.java

package com.sample.test;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

import com.sample.pojo.Author;

public class HelloWorld {
 public static void main(String args[]) {
  ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] { "myConfiguration.xml" });

  Author author1 = context.getBean("osho", Author.class);
  Author author2 = context.getBean("osho", Author.class);
  
  System.out.println("author1 = " + author1);
  System.out.println("author2 = " + author2);
  System.out.println("author1 == author2 : " + (author1 == author2));

  ((ClassPathXmlApplicationContext) context).close();
 }
}

Output

Constructor called
Constructor called
author1 = com.sample.pojo.Author@6d7b4f4c
author2 = com.sample.pojo.Author@527740a2
author1 == author2 : false

Notify the output, constructor called two times, that means two new objects are created.

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