Request scope and service-to-service requests

[ceineke]

The Spring reference mannual states that "the Spring container will create a brand new instance of the [...] bean [...] for each and every HTTP request."

From what perspective is the manual talking about here, the service or the consumer?

Will the container create new instances of "request"-scoped beans when I invoke another service from within the current request (as in Consumer->Service 1->Service 2)?

[Marten Deinum]

Will the container create new instances of "request"-scoped beans when I invoke another service from within the current request (as in Consumer->Service 1->Service 2)?

No. The request is the request as in web request (request and session scoped beans only work in web environments). So there will be a new instance for the request which is alive and shared during the lifetime of that request.

[ceineke]

Thank you for confirming that, Marten. I appreciate your clarification!