Spring Request and Prototype Scope?

Question

Below are the definitions of prototype and request scope in Spring.

prototype Scopes a single bean definition to any number of object instances.

request Sc

Answer 1

You are off. Prototype is described in the docs here as

"The non-singleton, prototype scope of bean deployment results in the creation of a new bean instance every time a request for that specific bean is made."

Your description of request scoped beans is accurate.

Probably just got the wires crossed vis-a-vis prototype vs singleton.