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Instructor: In this video will cover bean scopes.

Scope refers to the lifecycle of a bean.

Such as, how long does the bean live,

how many instances are created, and how is the bean shared?

Now the default scope in spring is singleton.

Okay, so the default scope is singleton. Very important.

What is a singleton?

Well, Spring Container creates only one instance

of the bean by default, and it's cached in memory

and all dependency injections for that bean

will reference the same bean.

All right, so it's just a singleton,

one single item that's created in memory

and shared amongst different other items.

Here's an example of this.

So I have this demo controller.

I have two references here, myCoach, anotherCoach.

I'll inject it using qualifier CricketCoach, theCoach,

another qualifier in CricketCoach, theAnotherCoach,

and they both point to the same instance,

because by default, spring beans are singleton beans.

There's only one instance that's created.

Now, we could also explicitly specify the bean scope.

So in our class cricket coach

we could make use of scope annotation,

and then we give configurable bean factory

dot scope singleton.

There's additional spring bean scopes.

We already saw the first one here for the singleton scope.

There's also prototype scope.

It'll create a new bean incense

for each container request or for each injection point.

There's request scope.

That's scoped to an HTTP web request only used for web apps.

There's also a session scope that's scoped

to an HTTP web session.

Again, only used for web apps.

And then there's a global session that's scoped

to the global HTTP web session in the case of web apps.

Now let's take a look at a prototype scope example.

Now with prototype scope, a new object instance is created

for each injection.

So we have to specify the scope

on the actual class here the bean.

So cricket coach, we have scope

configurable bean factory dot scope prototype,

create a new one for each instance.

Let's look at a prototype scope example,

a new object instance for each injection.

We have our demo controller, we have our two fields here

and then we reference our cricket coach, the coach,

cricket coach, the another coach.

Since this is a prototype scope bean,

you'll get a new object instance for each injection.

So they point to two different areas of memory

or two different beans.

How could we check on the scope?

Well, we could write some code here

as far as a get mapping for slash check

And a return to results here.

So I'll say comparing beans

to my coach equals another coach

and then I put the actual expression here.

So this will check to see if this is the same bean.

This will return true or false depending

on the bean scope.

For singleton scope, they return true,

because remember

singleton is shared and it points to the same bean.

If it's prototype scope, it'll return false

because with prototype you get a new instance

for each one of them and they won't point to the same item.

All right, so this is really good.

Let's go ahead and dive into our IDE

and let's write the code for this and check out scopes.