Spring Prototype scoped bean in a singleton

Question

I am trying to inject a prototype bean in a singleton bean such that every new call to a singleton bean method has a new instance of the prototype

Answer 1

Since Spring 4.1 you can use annotation @Lookup

@Lookup
    public PrototypeBean getPrototypeBean() {
        return null;
    }

Every time you will call method getPrototypeBean() - you will receive new prototype bean instance. Don't worry about empty method realization: Spring will override it for you.

Read more in official documentation.