When annotating a class with @Component, does this mean it is a Spring Bean and Singleton?

Question

Being fairly new to Spring I have a question about annotating a class. When annotating a class with @Component does this mean this class will be a Spring Bean a

Answer 1

By default - Yes.

However, you can override this behavior using the @Scope annotation. For example: @Scope(ConfigurableBeanFactory.SCOPE_PROTOTYPE)