Polish Javadoc for @Scope

spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/Scope.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2015 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -23,30 +23,33 @@ import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;
 
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableBeanFactory;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 
 /**
- * When used as a type-level annotation in conjunction with the {@link Component}
- * annotation, indicates the name of a scope to use for instances of the annotated
- * type.
+ * When used as a type-level annotation in conjunction with
+ * {@link org.springframework.stereotype.Component @Component},
+ * {@code @Scope} indicates the name of a scope to use for instances of
+ * the annotated type.
  *
- * <p>When used as a method-level annotation in conjunction with the
- * {@link Bean} annotation, indicates the name of a scope to use for
- * the instance returned from the method.
+ * <p>When used as a method-level annotation in conjunction with
+ * {@link Bean @Bean}, {@code @Scope} indicates the name of a scope to use
+ * for the instance returned from the method.
  *
- * <p>In this context, scope means the lifecycle of an instance, such as
- * {@code singleton}, {@code prototype}, and so forth. Scopes provided out of the box in
- * Spring may be referred to using the {@code SCOPE_*} constants available in
- * via {@link ConfigurableBeanFactory} and {@code WebApplicationContext} interfaces.
+ * <p>In this context, <em>scope</em> means the lifecycle of an instance,
+ * such as {@code singleton}, {@code prototype}, and so forth. Scopes
+ * provided out of the box in Spring may be referred to using the
+ * {@code SCOPE_*} constants available in the {@link ConfigurableBeanFactory}
+ * and {@code WebApplicationContext} interfaces.
  *
  * <p>To register additional custom scopes, see
- * {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomScopeConfigurer CustomScopeConfigurer}.
+ * {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomScopeConfigurer
+ * CustomScopeConfigurer}.
  *
  * @author Mark Fisher
  * @author Chris Beams
+ * @author Sam Brannen
  * @since 2.5
- * @see Component
- * @see Bean
+ * @see org.springframework.stereotype.Component
+ * @see org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean
  */
 @Target({ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD})
 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@@ -55,6 +58,7 @@ public @interface Scope {
 
 	/**
 	 * Specifies the scope to use for the annotated component/bean.
+	 * <p>Defaults to {@link ConfigurableBeanFactory#SCOPE_SINGLETON SCOPE_SINGLETON}.
 	 * @see ConfigurableBeanFactory#SCOPE_SINGLETON
 	 * @see ConfigurableBeanFactory#SCOPE_PROTOTYPE
 	 * @see org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext#SCOPE_REQUEST
@@ -65,9 +69,11 @@ public @interface Scope {
 	/**
 	 * Specifies whether a component should be configured as a scoped proxy
 	 * and if so, whether the proxy should be interface-based or subclass-based.
-	 * <p>Defaults to {@link ScopedProxyMode#NO}, indicating that no scoped
-	 * proxy should be created.
+	 * <p>Defaults to {@link ScopedProxyMode#DEFAULT}, which typically indicates
+	 * that no scoped proxy should be created unless a different default
+	 * has been configured at the component-scan instruction level.
 	 * <p>Analogous to {@code <aop:scoped-proxy/>} support in Spring XML.
+	 * @see ScopedProxyMode
 	 */
 	ScopedProxyMode proxyMode() default ScopedProxyMode.DEFAULT;