Is it possible to retrieve a Spring bean with prototype scope without using ApplicationContextAware

Question

Using Spring 3.1. If I want to retrieve a bean with prototype scope (i.e. I want a different instance of the class each time), is it possible to retrieve the bean without having to use an ApplicationContextaware class?

This is how I do it at present

@Component
@Qualifier("MyService")
public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService {

    @Override
    public void doSomething() {
        Blah blah = (Blah)ApplicationContextProvider.getContext().getBean("blah");
        blah.setThing("thing");
        blah.doSomething();
    }
}


@Component("blah")
@Scope("prototype")
public class Blah {
    ....
}

where ApplicationContextProvider implements ApplicationContextAware.

Is it possible to do this with annotations or simple Spring configuration without having to use an ApplicationContextAware class?

Answer 1

Spring has some fairly sophosticated methods for achieving what you're after...

See the spring documentation: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/html/beans.html#beans-factory-scopes-other-injection

Searching for spring proxy scope on google also threw up some results...