Mastering Spring Framework Fundamentals - Understanding the Prototype Scope

The video tutorial explains the concept of scopes in the Spring framework, focusing on Singleton and Prototype scopes. It describes how Singleton scope ensures a single instance of a bean, while Prototype scope creates a new instance each time. The tutorial also covers the Request scope for web applications and highlights considerations like thread safety and resource management. Finally, it demonstrates how to explicitly declare a scope in the Spring configuration.

What happens when you call getBean() with a prototype scoped bean?

What is the default scope of a bean in Spring?

Explain the difference between Singleton scope and Prototype scope in Spring.

Describe the lifetime of a request scoped bean in a web application.

What considerations should be taken into account when using Singleton beans in a multi-threaded web application?