Bean id's and singleton status

[itripn]

I have a rather basic question, which after using Spring for well over a year I am surprised I have to ask, because I thought I "got it".

Let's say I have an applicationContext which the following pertinent fragments (I've removed package names for brevity sake):

<bean id="serviceOne" class="defaultHandler">
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<bean id="serviceTwo" class="defaultHandler">
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<bean id="serviceThree" class="defaultHandler">
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<bean id="serviceMap" class="java.util.HashMap">
    <constructor-arg>
        <map>
            <entry key="one" value-ref="serviceOne"/>
            <entry key="two" value-ref="serviceTwo"/>
            <entry key="three" value-ref="serviceThree"/>
        </map>
    </constructor-arg>
</bean>

My previous (to today) understanding is that even though all three of the service beans have the same class, since they have a different id Spring would instantiate 3 different instances, one for each id.

However, I believe I am only seeing a single instance created. Currently to get around it I have added "singleton='false'" to each bean.

Is this expected? Are singletons based on the class, not the id?

Thanks,
Ron

[Mark Fisher]

Singleton is based on the id. Can you provide more information about why you believe you only see a single instance?

[itripn]

Singleton is based on the id. Can you provide more information about why you believe you only see a single instance?

My stupid mistake. As usual, having to explain myself makes me look into things a little deeper, and it turns out I had a static in the handler that was making everything look like a single instance. Stupid.

Thanks for the reply Mark, sorry for the noise.

Ron

[Mark Fisher]

No worries... glad I could indirectly help.