Normally it is said that when you create your own scope, and Autowire a scoped object in your class,
It will inject the proxy object, and proxy object will call the method on the target bean.
So this means spring stores a list of object, and based on proxy's call it will give us the desired
object. Am i right? please explain
I don't know where that is said. Spring does not create proxies for scoped beans by default (you have to ask for it, e.g. with ). Once a proxy is created it is no different with a scoped bean than any other - the application context is a map from bean name to bean instance, and some of the beans are proxies.
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I have read that there are several types of bean scopes in Spring framework when declaring them. However, I do not understand why we need several types. Can anyone explain what is the need of having Bean scopes in a Spring application with some examples?
Thank you in Advance!
Spring Inversion of Control Container (Ioc container) creates and manages the beans in a Spring Application.With Each declared Spring Bean, we can provide metadata which specifies that number of instances of particular bean should get created and how long they should live i.e. life time of the bean.
Basically with plain Java we our-self creates object. Position where we create object decides it's lifetime for example object created within method is destroyed as soon as method is returned. But in case of Spring, v creates bean for us and to manage the life cycle of the bean Spring uses scope of the bean. It also provide flexibility to the developer to override default scope which is "Singleton".
Now why do we need several types ?
Simply because each bean could have its own lifetime. Depending upon the lifetime it has scope defined as below
singleton (Default) Scopes a single bean definition to a single object instance per Spring IoC container.
prototype Scopes a single bean definition to any number of object instances.
request Scopes a single bean definition to the lifecycle of a single HTTP request; that is, each HTTP request has its own instance of a bean created off the back of a single bean definition. Only valid in the context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext.
session Scopes a single bean definition to the lifecycle of an HTTP Session. Only valid in the context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext.
application Scopes a single bean definition to the lifecycle of a ServletContext. Only valid in the context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext.
websocket Scopes a single bean definition to the lifecycle of a WebSocket. Only valid in the context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext.
For example :
Singleton : objects like controller, service, repository required only one instance to be existed in the application.
Prototype : objects like Student, Product which might need to be created everytime you wanted to create new resource.
Remaining are WebAware scopes and self explanatory.
consider a case when a prototype-scoped bean is injected into a singleton scoped bean,
when we try to access prototype-scoped bean using the singleton-scoped bean, we are returned with the same bean every time i.e. the bean injected at the time of singleton initialization.
if we want to get different instances everytime we use a scoped proxy.
I did not get the concept how this scoped proxy works behind the stage and how it magically gives us a new instance even if the bean is present inside a singleton.
From the Spring documentation:
3.4.4.5. Scoped beans as dependencies
Being able to define a bean scoped to a HTTP request or Session (or indeed a custom scope of your own devising) is all very well, but one of the main value-adds of the Spring IoC container is that it manages not only the instantiation of your objects (beans), but also the wiring up of collaborators (or dependencies). If you want to inject a (for example) HTTP request scoped bean into another bean, you will need to inject an AOP proxy in place of the scoped bean. That is, you need to inject a proxy object that exposes the same public interface as the scoped object, but that is smart enough to be able to retrieve the real, target object from the relevant scope (for example a HTTP request) and delegate method calls onto the real object.
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To create such a proxy, you need only to insert a child element into a scoped bean definition (you may also need the CGLIB library on your classpath so that the container can effect class-based proxying; you will also need to be using Appendix A, XML Schema-based configuration). So, just why do you need this element in the definition of beans scoped at the request, session, globalSession and 'insert your custom scope here' level? The reason is best explained by picking apart the following bean definition (please note that the following 'userPreferences' bean definition as it stands is incomplete):
<bean id="userPreferences" class="com.foo.UserPreferences" scope="session"/>
<bean id="userManager" class="com.foo.UserManager">
<property name="userPreferences" ref="userPreferences"/>
</bean>
I have read that whenever we do getBean() in spring, it returns desired object.
So does it mean, if i write call getBean() 1000 times, thousand object will be created ??
If yes, Than how Spring manages these objects ?
if No, Please explain how Spring works with respect to object creation ?
Is there something Object pool kind of concept ?
Please clarify my doubts. I am new to spring and is very confused whether spring framework is created to make our task easy or to make things more complicated.
Spring seems to be a web of XMLs :(
From the Spring Framework documentation on singleton bean factory scope:
The singleton scope
Only one shared instance of a singleton bean is managed, and all
requests for beans with an id or ids matching that bean definition
result in that one specific bean instance being returned by the Spring
container.
To put it another way, when you define a bean definition and it is
scoped as a singleton, the Spring IoC container creates exactly one
instance of the object defined by that bean definition. This single
instance is stored in a cache of such singleton beans, and all
subsequent requests and references for that named bean return the
cached object.
To sum it up, no, Spring will create only a single instance of each bean in a bean factory unless you change the default scope of singleton to some other bean scope.
Other bean scopes include:
Bean scopes
singleton (Default) Scopes a single bean definition to a
single object instance per Spring IoC
container.
prototype Scopes a single bean
definition to any number of object instances.
request Scopes a single bean definition to the
lifecycle of a single HTTP request; that is, each HTTP request has its
own instance of a bean created off the back of a single bean
definition. Only valid in the context of a web-aware Spring
ApplicationContext.
session Scopes a single
bean definition to the lifecycle of an HTTP Session. Only valid in the
context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext.
global session Scopes a single bean definition to the
lifecycle of a global HTTP Session. Typically only valid when used in a portlet
context. Only valid in the context of a web-aware Spring
ApplicationContext.
Could someone give an overview or a summary of what the purpose of beans in a Spring framework context?
I understand the standard Java bean (no arg constructor, getters/setters, often serialized), but the Spring bean purpose seems to be different.
Is it a way of implementing the Singleton design pattern (one instance, for like factory classes) in a simple, reusable fashion?
I've mainly used Spring with annotations, but I feel I need to grasp this in order to understand Spring.
Thanks!
Beans are objects that form the backbone of the application.
A bean is simply an object that is instantiated, assembled and otherwise managed by a Spring IoC container; other than that, there is nothing special about a bean.It is in all other respects one of probably many objects in your application.
Spring beans are defined in a spring configuration file or by using annotations, instantiated by the Spring container, and then injected into your application.
Spring beans will not be singleton design pattern until you explicitly make them to be.The singleton design pattern and the spring scope 'singleton' are different things.You can define different bean scopes depending on your requirements.
The scopes could be :
singleton – Return a single bean instance per Spring IoC container
prototype – Return a new bean instance each time when requested
request – Return a single bean instance per HTTP request.
session – Return a single bean instance per HTTP session.
globalSession – Return a single bean instance per global HTTP
session.
The default scope is singleton.
I understand the standard Java bean (no arg constructor,
getters/setters, often serialized), but the Spring bean purpose seems
to be different.
You mean always serialized. Why do you think the purpose seems different?
In the end, you write classes. A lot of time these are POJOs, Plain Old Java Objects. Sometimes you implement an interface or extend a class, but its all just classes.
Beans are just classes. Don't overcomplicate it.
Now Spring might take your beans (classes) and manage them for you via any of a number of policies (prototype, singleton) but that doesn't change what a bean is, it speaks to how Spring manages the bean.
To understand best, you should get familiar with dependency injection. In a few words dependency injection allows you to use objects, or services without explicitly creating them (of course, it gives other benefits, but let's focus on the question). This is achieved by maintaining a dependency container that is - roughly said - a collection of beans.
A bean is a service/component you use in your application. Unlike the EJB, with Spring the bean is not constrained to constructor arguments or specific annotations (especially if you use xml contexts). You register a bean with a container (by defining a context), and when you require it, the container will provide you with an instance of that bean. In order to create the bean, the container examines its class and constructors, and uses any other registered beans within that context, to call the appropriate constructor or property setter.
You can configure a bean to be a singleton - this is not a singleton as in the design pattern term. Singleton beans are created once within the container, and the same instance is used whenever the bean is requested from that container. You can also use the prototype scope to force the container to create a new instance each time.
I am trying to better understand Spring instantiation of beans. To illustrate my doubts, let's assume we have a Service class being wired in a Controller, here are the questions:
How will Spring manage the lifecycle
of the Controller? Will a new object
be created per request?
Once a Service is instantiaded and
wired to a Controller, will Spring
re-use that object reference to wire
it in to other beans?
Like Servlets, Controllers' lifecycle spans beyond requests. All of controllers in the application are instantiated only once when application is started; afterwards those objects are re-used to service all requests.
As Bozho pointed out, by default all beans are in singleton scope, therefore they will be re-used everywhere, unless specified otherwise.
The default scope is singleton, which means beans will be re-used (i.e. 1) no, a new object will not be created per request, and 2) yes, the object reference will be reused).
This can all be configured. Have a look at http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/beans.html#beans-factory-scopes.
It all depends on the bean scope. By default all beans are in singleton scope - that is, they are instantiated by the container only once.
If you specify #Scope("request") (or the xml equivalent) then the same service object (singleton) will be injected in all instances of the request-scoped controller. (But you rarely need request-scoped controllers)