Understanding Bean Scopes and Lifecycle in Spring Framework

Bean Scopes in Spring When the Spring IoC container starts, it reads bean definitions from configuration files (e.g., XML) and converts each <bean> element into a BeanDefinition object. The scope attribute within BeanDefinition determines the bean's scope. Spring provides five built-in scopes, three of which are only available in a web-aw ...

Posted on Fri, 22 May 2026 18:47:37 +0000 by richrock