Actions, Beans and Spring

I changed my action mapping class name to the bean id in my spring file and I am not getting a new action created for each request! The correct action is being invoked, but it is not being created anew for each request. I was sure to set the scope=prototype" in the bean mapping, yet the logging

Actions, Beans and Spring

What beans get instantiated as an Action class is created? Is it exclusively a function of the bean mappings in the spring config, or is there something more going on? I cannot find the source for the StrutsSpringObjectFactory and I'm seeing a null passed into a setter method on an Action class.