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

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Prototype creates a brand new instance everytime you call getBean on the ApplicationContext. Whereas for Request, only one instance is created for an HttpRequest. So in a single HttpRequest, I can call getBean twice on Application and there will only ever be one bean instantiated, whereas that same bean scoped to Prototype in that same single HttpRequest would get 2 different instances.

HttpRequest scope

Mark mark1 = context.getBean("mark"); 
Mark mark2 = context.getBean("mark"); 
mark1 == mark2; //This will return true 

Prototype scope

Mark mark1 = context.getBean("mark"); 
Mark mark2 = context.getBean("mark"); 
mark1 == mark2; //This will return false 

Hope that clears it up for you.