Hi all, I have a singleton bean which needs for each call of a function to return a reference to a different (new) prototype bean. The only way that I can think of doing this is to programmatically retrieve a new prototype bean instance from the BeanFactory/ApplicatioContext by invoking its getBean() method. Code sample will follow...
Is there a better way to do this? Only via configuration, hopefully? (Personally, I doubt there is...)
<bean id="protoBean" scope="prototype"
class="com.blahblah.ProtoBean" />
<bean id="singletonBean"
class="com.blahblah.SingletonBean" />
public class ProtoBean {
....
}
public class SingletonBean {
private BeanFactory factory;
public ProtoBean dispense() {
return (ProtoBean) factory.getBean("protoBean");
}
....
}