Spring autowire and prototype scope

Question

I have a class named Bar with the following annotation: @Configurable(autowire = Autowire.BY_TYPE)

On a private member I have the following annotation:

Answer 1

The following links provide alternative solutions for such scenarios:

1. http://whyjava.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/spring-scoped-proxy-beans-an-alternative-to-method-injection/
2. http://benkiew.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/spring-2-5-x-create-prototype-instances-from-code/

The first link talks about adding to Foo:

@Component
@Scope(proxyMode = ScopedProxyMode.TARGET_CLASS, value = "prototype")
class Foo

Which will cause a new instance every call.