A bean's scope determines how the bean behaves when that bean is requested from the ApplicationContext $-$ Spring

$*$ could be instructed to either provide a newly$-$instantiated object or reuse an existing object. Below are the

$*$ Spring bean scopes:

$*$

$*$ Singleton $-$ the default scope, any time a specific bean is requested, the existing object is reused

$*$ Prototype $-$ any time a bean is requested a new object is instantiated

$*$ Request $-$ only used in web applications $-$ a new object is instantiated once per web request

$*$ Session $-$ only used in web applications $-$ a new object is instantiated once per web session

$*$ Application $-$ only used in web applications $-$ a new object is instantiated once per web servlet

$*$ Websocket $-$ only used in web applications $-$ a new object is instantiated once per websocket

$*/$

$/**$

$*$ The @Scope$()$ annotation here is unnecessary as "singleton" is the default, but this example shows how the

$*$ scope can be set.