Singleton Design Pattern and Singleton Spring Bean

[Joe San]

Guys,

The doubt that I have is, is the Singleton Design Pattern and the Singleton Bean in Spring are the same or different. I just googled for this and some posts say that they are totally different. Any thoughts on this as well?

[Joe San]

Are there new threads that are spawned for each requests to the Singleton bean in Spring? Something like the service method in Servlets???

[David Newton]

I'm not sure what a "request to a singleton bean" is.

A singleton bean follows the singleton pattern--there's only one instance.

I guess I'm not really sure what you're asking.

[Hong Anderson]

They are quite different.
GoF Singleton class will have only one instance per ClassLoader, whereas for Spring Singleton the only one instance will be created per container and per bean.

[Hong Anderson]

Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:Are there new threads that are spawned for each requests to the Singleton bean in Spring? Something like the service method in Servlets???

It depends on that you (or servlet container or any code) create a new thread or not. Spring Framework doesn't create new thread.

[Joe San]

Kengkaj Sathianpantarit wrote:

Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:Are there new threads that are spawned for each requests to the Singleton bean in Spring? Something like the service method in Servlets???

It depends on that you (or servlet container or any code) create a new thread or not. Spring Framework doesn't create new thread.

What do you mean here? If I need I can create a new servlet thread?? The servlet specification says that for each request, the container creates a new thread starting from the service method. So I though for the Singleton Spring beans, Spring would be doing something like that...

[Hong Anderson]

Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:

Kengkaj Sathianpantarit wrote:

Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:Are there new threads that are spawned for each requests to the Singleton bean in Spring? Something like the service method in Servlets???

It depends on that you (or servlet container or any code) create a new thread or not. Spring Framework doesn't create new thread.

What do you mean here? If I need I can create a new servlet thread?? The servlet specification says that for each request, the container creates a new thread starting from the service method. So I though for the Singleton Spring beans, Spring would be doing something like that...

I mean if servlet container create a new thread, there will be a new thread. Spring doesn't create a new thread.

I just rephrase my answer. I wonder what makes you think Spring will create a new thread.