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Can a Spring bean be thread-safe simply because it is a singleton?
Tests whether you know singleton scope only guarantees one shared instance, not thread safety -- any mutable state on that instance is still subject to race conditions across concurrent requests unless you synchronize or avoid shared mutable fields.
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