Re: [Springframework-developer] Multible singletons

[Andreas R. <ar...@gm...>]

Am Freitag, 15. Oktober 2004 23:23 schrieb Luke Taylor:
> Hi,
>
> Are you loading the same resource twice? i.e. are parentResource and
> childResource the same? 
No, the resources are different. In my example the two bean definitions are in 
different resources.

> AFAIK the "singleton" or "prototype" definition
> only applies within a particular BeanFactory and defines the behaviour
> of calls to getBean. So if you load the same set of beans twice, you
> will end up with two "singleton" beans called "dao".

It should if it was the same resource. But I expect that if there is only one 
bean definition for the 'dao' , there should be only one singleton instance. 
Because XMLBeanFactory implements HierachicalBeanFactory!

regards
         Andy