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What is Spring Boot concurrency problem in singleton beans?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

Singleton beans are shared across threads, causing concurrency issues if state is mutable.

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Spring singleton beans are thread-safe only if stateless. Shared mutable fields can lead to race conditions. Solutions include using synchronization, ThreadLocal, or redesigning stateless services.

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