In an earlier section, we had an in-depth discussion about the scopes and their use. We also saw how to manage scope according to the requirements in XML. Usually, @Scope is a class-level annotation. However, it can also be used with bean annotation, and can be applied to a method that indicates scope of the instance returned from it.

The following is the code that indicates the use of @Scope:

package com.ch02.scope.annotation; 
 
@Component 
@Scope(scopeName="prototype") 
public class Customer_Scope { 
  private String cust_name; 
  private int cust_id; 
 
  @Autowired 
  @Qualifier(value="address") 
  private Address cust_address; 
 
  public Customer_Scope() { 
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub 
    cust_id=10; 
    cust_name="my name"; 
  } 
  //getters and setters 
} 

You can use the following code to check whether a new instance is provided each time or not:

public class TestCustomer_Scope { 
 public static void main(String[] args) { 
   // TODO Auto-generated method stub 
   ApplicationContext context = new 
     ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("customer_new.xml"); 
   Customer_Scope customer = (Customer_Scope)  
     context.getBean("customer_Scope"); 
   System.out.println(customer.getCust_name() + "	" +  
      customer.getCust_id() +  
      customer.getCust_address()); 
   customer.setCust_name("new name set"); 
 
   Customer_Scope customer1 = (Customer_Scope)  
      context.getBean("customer_Scope"); 
   System.out.println(customer1.getCust_name() + "	" +  
     customer1.getCust_id() +  customer1.getCust_address()); 
   System.out.println("after changing name and using prototype scope"); 
   System.out.println(customer.getCust_name() + "	" +  
       customer.getCust_id() + customer.getCust_address()); 
   System.out.println(customer1.getCust_name() + "	" 
     + customer1.getCust_id()+   
    customer1.getCust_address()); 
  }  
} 

You can refer to the complete code at--Ch02_Demo_Annotation.