Ensure single instance of a spring managed bean

Question

I have created a spring aspect to handle Retry mechanism. I have also created a Retry annotation. Following is the code for Retry annotation and an aspect which processes th

Answer 1

There will ever only be one instance as its a spring managed bean with the default scope of singleton. You have some singleton type stuff at the top of your class (like where you create your new instance statically etc)... this is not needed. An aspect is just a bean like any other so code it asuch. If you want to be sure, put in a PostContruct method with some logging like 'Initiating aspect' or something and you will see it only prints to your logs once.