Non Singleton
/* Pro Spring By Rob Harrop Jan Machacek ISBN: 1-59059-461-4 Publisher: Apress */ /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //File: beans.xml <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd"> <beans> <!-- non-singleton examples --> <bean id="nonSingleton" class="java.lang.String" singleton="false"> <constructor-arg> <value>Value</value> </constructor-arg> </bean> </beans> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory; import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory; import org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource; public class NonSingleton { public static void main(String[] args) { BeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(new FileSystemResource( "build/beans.xml")); String s1 = (String)factory.getBean("nonSingleton"); String s2 = (String)factory.getBean("nonSingleton"); System.out.println("Identity Equal?: " + (s1 ==s2)); System.out.println("Value Equal:? " + s1.equals(s2)); System.out.println(s1); System.out.println(s2); } }