Spring session-scoped beans as dependencies in prototype beans?

Question

I read spring docs on this subject several times, but some things are still unclear to me. Documentation states:

If you want to inject (for example) an HT

Answer 1

You can always inject a bean of wider scope (e.g. a singleton) into a bean of narrower scope (e.g. a session-scoped bean), but to it the other way around, you need a scoped-proxy.

So your example of injecting a session-scoped bean into a prototype-scoped bean is fine, because session-scope is "wider" than prototype-scope.

If you get it wrong, then Spring will tell you. If it doesn't complain, then you don't need it.