Singleton design pattern vs Singleton beans in Spring container

A singleton bean in Spring and the singleton pattern are quite different. Singleton pattern says that one and only one instance of a particular class will ever be created per classloader.

The scope of a Spring singleton is described as “per container per bean”. It is the scope of bean definition to a single object instance per Spring IoC container. The default scope in Spring is Singleton.

Even though the default scope is singleton, you can change the scope of bean by specifying the scope attribute of <bean ../> element.

<bean id=".." class=".." scope="prototype" />

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