java - Spring Singleton Thread Safety

Question

If I have a Java class defined below that is injected in my web application via dependency injection:

public AccountDao
{
   private NamedParameterJdbcTemplate njt;
   private List<Account> accounts;

   public AccountDao(Datasource ds)
   {
       this.njt = new NamedParameterJdbcTemplate(ds);
       refreshAccounts();
   }

   /*called at creation, and then via API calls to inform service new users have 
     been added to the database by a separate program*/
   public void refreshAccounts()
   {
      this.accounts = /*call to database to get list of accounts*/
   }

   //called by every request to web service
   public boolean isActiveAccount(String accountId)
   {
       Account a = map.get(accountId);
       return a == null ? false : a.isActive();
   }
}

I am concerned about thread safety. Does the Spring framework not handle cases where one request is reading from the list and it is currently being updated by another? I have used read/write locks before in other applications, but I have never thought about a case such as above before.

I was planning on using the bean as a singleton so I could reduce database load.

By the way, this is a follow up of the below question:

Java Memory Storage to Reduce Database Load - Safe?

EDIT:

So would code like this solve this problem:

/*called at creation, and then via API calls to inform service new users have 
         been added to the database by a separate program*/
       public void refreshAccounts()
       {
          //java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock
          final Lock w = lock.writeLock();
          w.lock();
          try{
               this.accounts = /*call to database to get list of accounts*/
          }
          finally{
             w.unlock();
          }
       }

       //called by every request to web service
       public boolean isActiveAccount(String accountId)
       {
           final Lock r = lock.readLock();
           r.lock();

           try{
               Account a = map.get(accountId);
           }
           finally{
               r.unlock();
           }
           return a == null ? false : a.isActive();
       }

Answer 1

Spring framework does not do anything under the hood concerning the multithreaded behavior of a singleton bean. It is the developer's responsibility to deal with concurrency issue and thread safety of the singleton bean.

I would suggest reading the below article: Spring Singleton, Request, Session Beans and Thread Safety