Event handling targeting prototype beans

[StefanosK]

Hi all,

Does anyone happen to know what the expected behavior is for the standard configuration of event handling, when the class that is targeted is a bean with prototype scope.

From what I see not all instances of this prototype receive applicationEvents.

At a given point registerListeners is executed for the applicationContext, which first looks for statically specified listeners and secondly ads all values the following method returns getBeansOfType(ApplicationListener.class, true, false).values();

This implies that a new instance is created of the prototype and registered as listener.

Newly created instances are not registered and thus receive no application events.

Could this be solved by creating a custom ApplicationEventMulticaster that somehow manages to load instances of a given prototype bean as listeners when executing multicastEvent()?

Regards,

Stefan Koulouris


// Nevermind, solved the problem by setting the applicationEventMulticaster on the class that generates the instances. This way new listeners can be registered.