Chapter 2: The Bean Factory and Application Context

Overview

next chapter will show how you may also access the full power of the containers using programmatic mechanisms for configuration, as well as alternative declarative formats.

We''ll be looking at:

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  Inversion of control and Dependency Injection
  



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  Basic object configuration and wiring of objects in the Spring container



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  How dependencies are resolved, and explicit versus automatic wiring of dependencies



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  Handling object lifecycles in the Spring container



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  Abstracting access to services and resources



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  Bean and bean factory post-processors for customizing bean and container behavior



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  Programmatic usage of the BeanFactory and ApplicationContext interfaces