How many instances created for singleton bean referring to a session bean/prototype bean

Question

I have a doubt about the number of instances that will be created in the scenario mentioned below, when Spring Framework is used:

The bean configuration is like

Answer 1

If we use the way as mentioned in question spring IOC will create always return the same object as singleton, In order to inject prototype bean inside singleton we have two way

1) Lookup method injection

2) Scoped Proxies

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