title: are non singleton beans not a prototype in spring
body: <p>I was reading the documentation for SmartFactoryBean and was intrigued by the documentation saying that isPrototype is just not the inverse of isSingleton </p>
  
  <p>and any scoped beans are not prototypes. </p>
  
  <p>Is this because they are not truely independent? and what do we mean by not truely independent. </p>
  
  <p>what is the rationale behind this?</p>
  
  <p>I could not get convincing answer my self and hence turned to the experts at sof.</p>
  
  <p>Vam</p>