What is difference between singleton and prototype bean?

Question

i\'m new to spring and i read this :

Basically a bean has scopes which defines their existence on the application

Singleton: means single bean def

Answer 1

Let's just simply look this up through code.

Following is a TennisCoach Bean with default singleton Scope

@Component
@Scope("singleton")
public class TennisCoach implements Coach {

    public TennisCoach(){

    }

    @Autowired
    public void setFortuneService(FortuneService fortuneService) {
        this.fortuneService = fortuneService;
    }

    @Override
    public String getDailyWorkout() {
        return "Practice your backhand volley";
    }

    @Override
    public String getDailyFortune() {
        return "Tennis Coach says : "+fortuneService.getFortune();
    }

}

Following is a TennisCoach Bean with prototype scope

@Component
@Scope("prototype")
public class TennisCoach implements Coach {

    public TennisCoach(){
        System.out.println(">> TennisCoach: inside default constructor");
    }

    @Autowired
    public void setFortuneService(FortuneService fortuneService) {
        System.out.println(">> Tennis Coach: inside setFortuneService");
        this.fortuneService = fortuneService;
    }

    @Override
    public String getDailyWorkout() {
        return "Practice your backhand volley";
    }

    @Override
    public String getDailyFortune() {
        return "Tennis Coach says : "+fortuneService.getFortune();
    }

}

Following is a Main class :

public class AnnotationDemoApp {

    public static void main(String[] args) {


        // read spring config file
        ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context =
            new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");

       // get the bean from the spring container
       Coach theCoach = context.getBean("tennisCoach",Coach.class);
       Coach alphaCoach = context.getBean("tennisCoach",Coach.class);
       // call a method on the bean
       System.out.println("Are the two beans same :" + (theCoach==alphaCoach));

       System.out.println("theCoach : " + theCoach);
       System.out.println("alphaCoach: "+ alphaCoach);


       context.close()

    }
}

For singleton scope the output is :

Are the two beans same :true
theCoach : com.springdemo.TennisCoach@2a53142
alphaCoach: com.springdemo.TennisCoach@2a53142

For prototype scope the output is :

Are the two beans same :false
theCoach : com.springdemo.TennisCoach@1b37288
alphaCoach: com.springdemo.TennisCoach@1a57272