Instantiating a Bean in Spring

[Joe San]

How does instantiating a bean using the static factory method differ from instantiating a bean using a constructor??

[Christophe Verré]

I think we have the option to use static factory methods to be able to instantiate beans using a factory method design pattern. A class containing factory methods usually has a private constructor, to avoid instantiating it. That's where using the factory-method attribute is useful.

[Joe San]

By the way, a slightly deviant question....what is the default scope of all the beans that we wire up with the Spring container?? Is it Singleton or Prototype?

[Joe San]

Just found out from the Spring docs that it is Singleton by default.

[Lalit Bhatt]

you can look to some tutorials on Spring a href="http://www.lalitbhatt.com/tiki-index.php?page=Spring">here