Hi

** changed the example to better express the situation

i am using spring 2.5 and have the following situation

@Component
@Scope("prototype") 
Class Foo
{
}

class A
{ 
  @Autowired 
  Foo fooA;
}


class B
{ 
  @Autowired 
  Foo fooB;
}



class C
{ 
  @Autowired 
  Foo fooC;
}

i am trying to understand if there is some way to use @Autowired and bind the same instance of FOO onto fooA and fooB while binding a different instance to fooC

i understand that if the scope of FOO will be singleton it will work

but i am wandering if there is a way to achieve the same goal while using a protoype scope.

also please explain is this the correct usage of the autowiring concept ? am i trying to abuse the spring framework purpose